life-threatening situation

collocation in English

meaningsoflife-threateningandsituation

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life-threatening
adjective
uk
/ˈlaɪfˌθret.ən.ɪŋ/us
/ˈlaɪfˌθret.ən.ɪŋ/
A life-threatening disease is a very serious one that can ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition oflife-threateningandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The right to bodily integrity was found to be superior to the doctor's duty to operate in alife-threateningsituation.
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Such activation serves as a general alarm function and is adaptive in alife-threateningsituation.
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If simpler or cheaper means to attain the same objective exist, they must be preferred, especially if the chance of anylife-threateningsituationdeveloping is considered small.
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It is almost always alife-threateningsituationfor a firefighter.
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It will of course be possible to trigger the alarm manually, for example if one witnesses an accident or gets into alife-threateningsituationoneself.
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Those matters should be considered urgently before the words "potentiallylife-threateningsituation"become simply"life-threateningsituation".
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He was up against alife-threateningsituationand dealt with it courageously.
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It is a medical emergency and potentiallylife-threateningsituationrequiring immediate emergency treatment.
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All in the path of such a storm are urged to take cover immediately, as it is alife-threateningsituation.
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She began to think about her own mortalityand how her weight problem had created alife-threateningsituation.
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This is alife-threateningsituationdue to the resultant low oxygen levels throughout the body.
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This leads to distress and further increases respiratory rate and heart rate, creating a vicious circle that can quickly lead to alife-threateningsituation.
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She is a mutant, gaining whatever superhuman abilities are needed in alife-threateningsituation.
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Another question is what constitutes alife-threateningsituation.
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This does not necessarily mean the person must actually be in alife-threateningsituation, for many are aroused from dreams and fantasies of such.
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Alife-threateningsituationsuch as a major physical trauma or prolonged starvation can greatly disrupt homeostasis.
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In normal individuals, this is of little consequence, but the shortened red cell life of sickle-cell patients results in an abrupt,life-threateningsituation.
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As such the circumstances where necessity could apply to a serious crime are extremely narrow, involving two or more people in an immediatelylife-threateningsituationwhere only one could survive.
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