Meanings
nounreanimatology (uncountable)
- dateduncountablemedicineThe branch of medicine that deals with the resuscitation of critically ill patients.
Dr. Shvetsky, who works at a veterans’ hospital in Russia, is far from a typical sports doctor: His subspecialty in anesthesia is reanimatology, the science aimed at reviving people who are clinically dead, meaning that their blood has stopped circulating and they have stopped breathing.
2022 November 10, Juliet Macur, Gabrielle Paluch, “Kamila Valieva’s Doctor Has Long Worked in the Shadows of Sport”, in The New York Times
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