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ventilator
[ ven-tl-ey-ter ]
noun
- a person or thing that ventilates.
- a contrivance or opening for replacing foul or stagnant air with fresh air.
- Medicine/Medical. an apparatus to produce artificial respiration, moving air into and out of a patient’s lungs:
The patient presented with signs of respiratory failure and was placed immediately on a ventilator.
ventilator
/ ˈɛԳɪˌɪə /
noun
- an opening or device, such as a fan, used to ventilate a room, building, etc
- med a machine that maintains a flow of air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe normally
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ventilator1
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Example Sentences
Freeman’s son Max woke up with a limp one day in July and, by the end of the day, was in a hospital and on a ventilator.
Back in my hometown Mumbai, one of my closest friends lay critical on a ventilator in hospital.
Among them were the wife and children of Dale Robertson, who used a ventilator after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare and paralyzing autoimmune disorder.
When he was first injured he could only communicate by blinking and clicking, and his injury is the worst level of tetraplegia – paralysed from the neck down and on a ventilator.
Pinfield told the Hollywood Reporter that he was put on a ventilator in the hospital and that his daughter was “the one who saved my life.”
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