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- noun
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation - noun slang
Kiss ing, particularlyFrench kissing .
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Examples
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New research in The Lancet medical journal shows that people were actually more likely to survive if ambulance dispatchers simply talked people through giving chest compressions, rather than trying to explain mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as well.
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Cut to minutes later when she is being given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by rescuers, to no avail.
Michael Shermer: The Eternally Boring Hereafter Michael Shermer 2010
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Also, it can be hard to explain how to do mouth-to-mouth, over the phone, to someone untrained, and quite possibly panicking.
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Back in my Girl Scout days, I spent some happy evenings learning how to give mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions to our resuscitation dummy, Fred, to earn my First Aid badge.
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Explaining mouth-to-mouth can delay starting chest compressions.
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But mouth-to-mouth may not be the best option for resuscitation.
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I maneuvered him closer until we were mouth-to-mouth, wanting to end this conversation.
Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011
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Last time I was trained, part of CPR is mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Discourse.net: Deconstructing the Police Report in the Skip Gates Arrest Case 2009
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Ernest and the socialist leaders fought fiercely to capture the farmers; but the destruction of the socialist press and publishing houses constituted too great a handicap, while the mouth-to-mouth propaganda had not yet been perfected.
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Back in the real world, people are often reluctant or afraid to give mouth-to-mouth, preferring to wait for the paramedics.
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