Term: life-support system: medical equipment that assists or replaces important bodily functions and so enables a patient to live who otherwise might not survive
Candidate hypernym: equipment: an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service → 1
Candidate hypernym: protege: a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career → 0
Candidate hypernym: flying phalanger: nocturnal phalangers that move with gliding leaps using parachute-like folds of skin along the sides of the body → 0
Candidate hypernym: complacency: the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself → 0
Candidate hypernym: intention: an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out → 0
Candidate hypernym: wild plum: an uncultivated plum tree or shrub → 0
Candidate hypernym: horseman: a person who breeds and cares for horses → 0
Candidate hypernym: literalness: adhereing to the concrete construal of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: robber: a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence → 0
Candidate hypernym: retribution: the act of correcting for your wrongdoing → 0
Candidate hypernym: heel: (golf) the part of the clubhead where it joins the shaft → 0