Reader's Digest 5月号の記事 'MY COMA MIRACLE' からの引用です。
The ride to the hospital took about 20 minutes. The double doors of the ambulance opened to the sunlight, and from there it was straight to the emergency room, where for the next eight hours, I kept dying. I would flatline, someone would do CPR, and they'd pull me back from the abyss.
"flatline" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of a person) die: In the late 1970's in a Perth hospital I collapsed into a coma and then flatlined.
ORIGIN: with reference to the continuous straight line displayed on a heart monitor, indicating death
・Collins Dictionary: to die or be so near death that the display of one's vital signs on medical monitoring equipment shows a flat line rather than peaks and troughs
語源を知ると直ぐに覚えられる単語ですね。
The ride to the hospital took about 20 minutes. The double doors of the ambulance opened to the sunlight, and from there it was straight to the emergency room, where for the next eight hours, I kept dying. I would flatline, someone would do CPR, and they'd pull me back from the abyss.
"flatline" の意味を調べます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: (of a person) die: In the late 1970's in a Perth hospital I collapsed into a coma and then flatlined.
ORIGIN: with reference to the continuous straight line displayed on a heart monitor, indicating death
・Collins Dictionary: to die or be so near death that the display of one's vital signs on medical monitoring equipment shows a flat line rather than peaks and troughs
語源を知ると直ぐに覚えられる単語ですね。
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