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.
Basic life support promotes adequate blood circulation in addition to breathing through a clear airway 1  : Circulation: providing an adequate blood supply to tissue, especially critical organs, so as to deliver oxygen to all cells and remove metabolic waste, via the perfusion of blood throughout the body.