reanimatology

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From reanimate +‎ -ology.

Noun[edit]

reanimatology (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, dated) The branch of medicine that deals with the resuscitation of critically ill patients.
    • 2022 November 10, Juliet Macur, Gabrielle Paluch, “Kamila Valieva’s Doctor Has Long Worked in the Shadows of Sport”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Dr. Shvetsky, who works at a veterans’ hospital in Russia, is far from a typical sports doctor: His subspecialty in anesthesia is reanimatology, the science aimed at reviving people who are clinically dead, meaning that their blood has stopped circulating and they have stopped breathing.