life-saving

ˈlife-ˌsaving1, lifesaving /ˈlaɪfˌseɪvɪŋ/ adjectiveadj [only before noun]

life-saving medical treatments or equipment are used to help save people’s lives 挽救生命的，保命的

life-saving surgery/treatment/drugs etc

The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation.

这个男孩需要做移植手术来保命。

Examples from the Corpus

life-saving• Critics maintain excessive regulation can stand in the way of business expansion and faster approval of life-saving drugs.• But a craft that size would carry alternative life-saving equipment.• Sometimes, cowboys use more heroic life-saving measures, lifting weak cattle into trucks so they can be hauled to greener pastures.• For that he was awarded his first life-saving medal.• It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction.• The 59-year-old star needed two life-saving operation to remove blood clots and was left in a deep coma after brain surgery.• And the first indications were that his potential life-saving operation went well.• a life-saving operation• Dramatic life-saving techniques, organ transplants and similar developments have popular appeal.