Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mouth-to-mouth_resuscitation

1 sense of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

Sense 1
cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, cardiac resuscitation, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, kiss of life -- (an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen)
       => resuscitation -- (the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness; "although he was apparently drowned, resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration")
       => emergency procedure -- ((medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency))