蘇そ生せい

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蘇生する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

Medical or emergency context: bringing someone back to life or consciousness after cardiac arrest, drowning, etc.

Figurative use: restoring vitality to a declining organization, region, economy, or natural environment.

〈人ひと〉が蘇そ生せいするfor someone to be resuscitated / regain consciousness
医い師しの処しょ置ちにより患かん者じゃは蘇そ生せいした。
The patient was resuscitated thanks to the doctor's treatment.
〈人ひと〉に蘇そ生せいを試こころみるto attempt to resuscitate someone
救きゅう急きゅう隊たい員いんは倒たおれた男だん性せいに蘇そ生せいを試こころみた。
The paramedics attempted to resuscitate the man who had collapsed.
〈場ば所しょ〉が蘇そ生せいするfor a region, industry, or economy to be revitalized
過か疎そ化かしていた町まちが観かん光こうで蘇そ生せいした。
The depopulated town was revitalized through tourism.

復ふっ活かつN1
復活 is a broad term for any kind of comeback or return (a trend, a team's form, a tradition), while 蘇生 specifically means reviving from a life-threatening or severely weakened state.
再さい生せいN2
再生 emphasizes regrowth, rebirth, or playing back media, whereas 蘇生 emphasizes recovery from a critical, near-death condition.
気き付つけ
蘇生 is the more clinical term for resuscitation, whereas 気付け is the everyday word for bringing someone back from a faint.
人じん工こう呼こ吸きゅう
蘇生 is the broader term for reviving someone from a life-threatening state, while 人工呼吸 refers specifically to manually restoring breathing.

素そ性せい
素性 (そせい) means a person's lineage or background and has nothing to do with reviving anyone, despite sounding identical to 蘇生.
塑そ性せい
塑性 (そせい) is a physics term for plasticity, the ability of a material to deform, which learners may mishear as 蘇生 since the pronunciation is the same.

Sino-Japanese compound of 蘇 (revive) and 生 (life). The rare form 甦生 uses the variant kanji 甦, also meaning 'revive'.