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.
Is a ventilator and life support the same thing? A Ventilator: A ventilator is a machine which mechanically assists patients in the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of the body. It is similar to life support, â¦ but has a different job rather then to keep organs alive. There are many reasons people are placed on a ventilator, and most often, doctors try to keep the use of a ventilator to the shortest number of days possible because it is often difficult to wean a patient from a ventilator.