Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Life-saving \Life"-sav`ing\ (l[imac]f"s[=a]v`[i^]ng), a. That saves life, or is suited to save life, esp. from drowning; as, the life-saving service; a life-saving station.
Wiktionary
a. Preserving life; preventing death. alt. Preserving life; preventing death.
Usage examples of "life-saving".
He began his merciful and maybe life-saving injections, and every one of the more than three hundred threatened children who came into the hospital during the next five months received good doses of the diphtheria antitoxin.
The cardiac glycosides are helpful and even life-saving in the proper doses, but in improper doses can, of course, kill.
This will always retain its place in operative surgery as a palliative and life-saving operation for carcinomatous stenosis of the lower part of the colon, and in cases of carcinoma of the rectum in which operation is not feasible.
It is as if the Emersonian model of Oversoul, of a bloodstream that connects living creatures, were moved out of polite nineteenth-century rhetoric and shown to be the life-saving, corporeal principle it is.
We have obtained copies of internal corporate memos, heartbreaking under the circumstances, from line officers pleading for life-saving equipment such as radios with panic buttons.
He also asked them to arrange for the life-saving apparatus to be brought to the airfield and the parachutes to be got ready.
Rohan had emptied his coffers and the drug had seeped through to Radzyn port, where Chaynal had sent out riders on his swiftest horses to distribute the life-saving dranath.
The poor quality of life-saving gear that had been sent to us, I wrote, added to the risk of an emergency bailout from a disabled airplane and escape-and-evasion in hostile territories.
It seemed ironical, but she was sure that if life-saving doctors didn't in some way de-humanise their patients, they couldn't save them.
Absolutely essential, life-saving information can be acquired from folk medicine and in no other way.
The cardiac glycosides are helpful and even life-saving in the proper doses, but in improper doses can, of course, kill.
Already an irregular stream of ambulances and gringo-flown medical evacuation helicopters were flying back nap-of-the-earth, carrying the torn and bleeding to the medical facilities for hopefully life-saving surgery.