life-threatening
Could kill you
Life-threatening describes something that poses a serious risk of death: a life-threatening illness, life-threatening injuries.
The term appears frequently in medical and emergency contexts to indicate severity requiring immediate attention.
It can also describe dangerous situations more broadly: The flooding created life-threatening conditions.
Extremely serious or urgent
- graveSerious and worrying
- seriousWeighty and requiring attention
- perilousFraught with danger
- precariousDangerously insecure
desperate · extreme · urgent · imminent · catastrophic · irreversible · high-risk · touch-and-go
Causing death or ruin
- lethalCausing or capable of death
- deadlyAble to cause expiration
- mortalSubject to death
- toxicCapable of causing harm
venomous · poisonous · hazardous · carcinogenic · radioactive · asphyxiating · exposure · contamination
Expressing disapproval or importance
- acuteIntensely severe or perceptive
- severeExtremely harsh or strict
- unstableProne to sudden change
- terminalAt the endpoint
trauma · intensive · complications · prognosis · hemorrhage · anaphylaxis · sepsis · stroke
Emergency medical transport
- triageSeverity-based prioritization
- resuscitationRestoring vital functions
- paramedicsEmergency medical technicians
- 911Crisis response number
ER · ICU · defibrillator · epinephrine · tourniquet · intubation · medevac · CPR
dire
Extremely serious or urgent
precarious · desperate · extreme · urgent · imminent · catastrophic · irreversible · high-risk · touch-and-go · grim
fatal
Causing death or ruin
toxic · venomous · poisonous · hazardous · carcinogenic · radioactive · asphyxiating · exposure · contamination · dose
critical
Expressing disapproval or importance
terminal · trauma · intensive · complications · prognosis · hemorrhage · anaphylaxis · sepsis · stroke · embolism
ambulance
Emergency medical transport
- triageSeverity-based prioritization
- resuscitationRestoring vital functions
- paramedicsEmergency medical technicians
911 · ER · ICU · defibrillator · epinephrine · tourniquet · intubation · medevac · CPR · airway
- medical descriptorsacute, chronic, mild, moderate, severe
- Triagetriage nurse, triage area, field triage, battlefield triage, telephone triage
- conditionsmedical condition, weather conditions, environmental conditions, working conditions, medical conditions
- prioritypriority, top priority, high priority, low-priority, first priority
- medical adjectivessurgical, cardiac, orthopedic, malignant, respiratory
- medical resultspositive, negative, normal, abnormal, inconclusive
life-threateninglife-saving
Preventing fatal outcomes
life-affirming · life-giving · healing · restorative · curative
life, living, threat, threatening, threaten, livestock, lifelong, livelihood, threatened