There was dead silence in the cryotheater, save for the murmur and chuckle of life-support machinery and the thrum of powerful generators.

The aged refrigerator choked like a terminal patient on life-support machinery, denied a desperately needed mechanical respirator; the compressor motor rattled and expired.

For an instant he imagined revival, life-support machinery, cloning ... No.

It didn't need a bridge... or living quarters, corridors, mess galleys, and banks of life-support machinery.

Conway insisted on extreme care during this operation so as to avoid damaging the life-support machinery.

Then we are in a situation where we have a patient sustained on life-support machinery, and the kids may not want that.

But the soul was only half out; it remained anchored in the host, as had the soul of the woman on life-support machinery.

His limbless torso was propped up in a harness, connected to life-support machinery.

He sat in the one massive chair which was fixed in the center of the bubble, and which contained the boat's controls and life-support machinery.

But the life-support machinery enclosing the frame had been designed to take such punishment, as well as hitting back.