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Environment and Public Health > Environment > Environment, Controlled > Life Support Systems
Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Environment, Controlled > Life Support Systems

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Life Support Systems  

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Note

  • do not confuse with LIFE SUPPORT CARE: read MeSH definition

Scope note

  • Systems that provide all or most of the items necessary for maintaining life and health. Provisions are made for the supplying of oxygen, food, water, temperature and pressure control, disposition of carbon dioxide and body waste. The milieu may be a spacecraft, a submarine, or the surface of the moon. In medical care, usually under hospital conditions, LIFE SUPPORT CARE is available. (From Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary)

History note

  • 91(66); was see under SEALED CABIN ECOLOGY 1966-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008021

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