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.
Yes, people can come off of life support. No, they don't always die. It really depends on many factors, like age, health status, and if further complications occur while the person is on life support. Life support usually means that they are on a ventilator and, or drips to maintain homeostasis in the body.