life support vs neglect

life support

noun
  • The equipment and special procedures used for life support. 

  • Means of sustaining existence or continuation of something, usually in an artificial manner when it should have changed or terminated in its natural environment. 

  • Maintenance of vital functions of a critically ill or comatose person or a person undergoing surgery. 

  • An artificial system designed to provide oxygen in an environment that lacks oxygen. 

neglect

noun
  • Habitual lack of care. 

  • The act of neglecting. 

  • The state of being neglected. 

verb
  • To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness. 

  • To fail to care for or attend to something. 

  • To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight. 

  • To ignore for the sake of simplifying calculations without significantly affecting accuracy. 

How often have the words life support and neglect occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )