saving from the brink of death; reviving from a critical state
Rarely used alone; almost always appears in the four-character compound 起死回生 (きしかいせい), meaning a dramatic recovery or revival from a hopeless situation.
起死 is rarely used alone; it is normally seen in the four-character idiom 起死回生.
revival from the brink of death; recovery from a hopeless situation
From Chinese 起死 (qǐsǐ), meaning 'to raise from death'. In Japanese, it is a bound morpheme used almost exclusively in the compound 起死回生.