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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness;
- Example: "although he was apparently drowned, resuscitation was accomplished by artificial respiration"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Resuscitation \Re*sus`ci*ta"tion\, n. [L. resuscitatio.]
   The act of resuscitating, or state of being resuscitated.
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         The subject of resuscitation by his sorceries. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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