Resuscitations

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The act of restoring someone to life or consciousness after clinical death or a state of unconsciousness
2. Procedures and techniques employed to revive an individual from life-threatening conditions such as cardiac arrest
3. Interventions carried out to reinstate breathing and heartbeat in a person who has suffered loss of life functions

Etymology: "Resuscitations" is simply the plural of "resuscitation", so the story belongs to the noun it is built on. That noun comes from Latin "resuscitare", meaning "to revive" or "to raise again", a compound of "re-" (again) and "suscitare" (to rouse or stir up, from "sub-" and "citare" to summon). The Latin verb passed into English through Old French, which supplied the form "ressuscitacion", and Middle English had "resuscitacion" by the time the noun was taken on. The verb "resuscitate" was built from the Latin stem, and the noun "resuscitation" follows the common English pattern of adding "-ion" to a verb to name the act itself. The plural "resuscitations" therefore counts separate episodes of reviving someone, each one a distinct attempt to bring a person back from the brink.

Synonyms: revivals, restorations