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resus

resus is the clipping of resuscitation.

Meaning of resuscitation

Noun

resuscitation (countable and uncountable, plural resuscitations)

  1. The act of resuscitating.
    • If the depletion had cured a bad cold, or averted a slight fever, and the patient came down declaring she was well, yet looking very ill, and an officious caller recommended "beef-tea, calves' foot jellies, or a glass of old port," Lady Anne, who well knew the value of such nutriments, seeing she...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 230

Forms of resus

pluralresuses
pluralresusses

Questions about resus

What is resus the clipping of?
Resus is the clipping of resuscitation.

Words near resus in the dictionary

  1. resurveils
  2. resurvey
  3. resurveyed
  4. resurveying
  5. resurveys
  6. resus
  7. Resusci Anne
  8. Resusci Annes
  9. resuscitability
  10. resuscitable
  11. resuscitant

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