reanimation
Bringing back life
Reanimation is the act of bringing something back to life or restoring it to an active state.
The term appears in medicine for reviving someone whose heart has stopped, and in fiction for raising the dead: Frankenstein's reanimation of the creature, CPR and other reanimation techniques.
More loosely, reanimation describes reviving anything dormant: the reanimation of a stalled project.
Emergency revival technique
- defibrillationElectric cardiac rhythm reset
- ventilatorMechanical breathing apparatus
- intubationPlacing airway tube
- paramedicPrehospital emergency caregiver
emergency · pulse · airway · breathing · life-saving · stabilize · revive · flatline
Reanimated dead body
- undeadDeceased yet animate
- necromancyCommunicating with the deceased
- FrankensteinGothic novel's mad scientist
- resurrectRestore after ending
revenant · lich · ghoul · risen · voodoo · sorcery · grimoire · séance
Spiritual or physical regeneration
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- phoenixSelf-immolating, regenerating bird
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
- transmigrationSoul passing into another body
soul · spirit · immortality · karma · samsara · resurrection · awakening · Lazarus
Return after dormancy
- renewalMaking current again
- restorationReturning something to condition
- comebackRecovery after decline
- reawakeningRenewed consciousness or awareness
rejuvenation · regeneration · reinvigoration · rekindling · revitalization · renaissance · recovery · reemergence
CPR
Emergency revival technique
- defibrillationElectric cardiac rhythm reset
- ventilatorMechanical breathing apparatus
- intubationPlacing airway tube
paramedic · emergency · pulse · airway · breathing · life-saving · stabilize · revive · flatline · epinephrine
zombie
Reanimated dead body
- undeadDeceased yet animate
- necromancyCommunicating with the deceased
- FrankensteinGothic novel's mad scientist
resurrect · revenant · lich · ghoul · risen · voodoo · sorcery · grimoire · séance · possessed
rebirth
Spiritual or physical regeneration
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- phoenixSelf-immolating, regenerating bird
- afterlifeExistence beyond mortality
transmigration · soul · spirit · immortality · karma · samsara · resurrection · awakening · Lazarus · Osiris
resurgence
Return after dormancy
- renewalMaking current again
- restorationReturning something to condition
- comebackRecovery after decline
reawakening · rejuvenation · regeneration · reinvigoration · rekindling · revitalization · renaissance · recovery · reemergence · rebirth
- Zombieszombie, zombies, undead, walkers, walker
- Mad Scientistmad scientist, secret lab, lab coat, laboratory, evil genius
- undeadzombie, vampire, ghost, lich, skeleton
- necromancynecromancer, necromancy, undead, lich, zombie
- resurrectionrisen, bodily resurrection, resurrection of the dead, revive, resurrection day
- cryonicscryonics, cryopreservation, vitrification, liquid nitrogen, cryoprotectant
reanimationdeath
Cessation of life
extinction · expiration · annihilation · killing · dying
reanimationdecomposition
Breakdown into simpler parts
decay · putrefaction · rotting · disintegration · deterioration
reanimationdeactivation
Rendering inoperative
shutdown · termination · cessation · decommissioning · disabling