MOUTH & TEETH ANATOMY. Overview. While the mouth is a small part of our overall anatomy, itâs filled with many parts and players, all of which work together to help you eat, drink, speak and have a radiant smile. The key players are incisors, canines, premolars, molars, crowns, gum line, root, enamel, dentin and pulp.
Definition of Life support. Life support: 1. A therapy or device designed to preserve someone's life when an essential bodily system is not doing so. Life support may, for example, involve enteric feeding (by a tube), total parenteral nutrition, mechanical ventilation, a pacemaker, defibrillator, heart/lung machine, or dialysis. 2. Something that sustains life, as in The earth is the ultimate life support system.. 3.
Life support is often used inappropriately to maintain patients beyond the point at which it is clear that they have no chance of recovery, sometimes called futile treatment.. Such patients often have failure in multiple organ systems and one or more severe underlying diseases.