| ECCO2R | extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal |
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| ECI | electrocerebral inactivity; eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusions; extracorporeal irradiation |
| ECIB | extracorporeal irradiation of blood |
| ECIL | extracorporeal irradiation of lymph |
| ECMO | enteric cytopathic monkey orphan [virus]; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation |
| support medium | The material in which separation takes place, as in separation of components in electrophoresis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| training support | Financial support for training including both student stipends and loans and training grants to institutions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| financial support | The provision of monetary resources including money or capital and credit; obtaining or furnishing money or capital for a purchase or enterprise and the funds so obtained. (12 Dec 1998) |
| life support care | Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life. (12 Dec 1998) |
| life support systems | 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. (12 Dec 1998) |