reˈsuscitable, a.
[Cf. F. ressuscitable (16th c.).]
Capable of being resuscitated or restored to life. Hence resuscitaˈbility.
| a 1691 Boyle Wks. (1774) V. 605 The apothecary told the virtuoso, that he had really prepared resuscitable plants, a different way from that which others pretended to. 1842 Carlyle Let. 12 Jan. (1904) I. 250 It lies buried under two centuries of quackeries, scepticisms, owleries,—not resuscitable. 1908 Jrnl. Exper. Med. X. 373 The resuscitability of the animal in such an instance clearly depends on the perfection of the technique employed to resuscitate it. 1919 W. De Morgan Old Madhouse xvii. 274 Flinder's mill-pool yielded when dredged a resuscitable corpse. 1971 H. Pacy Road Accidents iii. 73 As with resuscitability, ‘life-and-death’ decisions are required at the scene of accidents. |