Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An apparatus for producing artificial respiration by pumping oxygen or air or a mixture of the two into and out of the lungs, as of a person who has been asphyxiated by drowning, breathing poisonous gases, or the like, or of one who has been stunned by an electrical shock.
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Examples
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A pulmotor was put into immediate action, and another period of heartbreaking suspense ensued.
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The pulmotor and similar mechanisms are, perhaps, the best things the use of which can be taught to laymen; but as compared to bronchoscopic oxygen insufflation they are woefully inefficient, because the intraoral pressure forces the tongue back over the laryngeal orifice, obstructing the airway in this "death zone."
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The foregoing applies to cases in which a pulmotor would be used, such as apnea from electric shocks, etc.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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In fact I didn't know that it was possible to resuscitate so many of them with a pulmotor.
Gold of the Gods 1908
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As the draught cleared the air, he thought of the telephone and with barely strength enough left called up one of the gas companies and had a pulmotor sent over.
Gold of the Gods 1908
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Warrington leaned over, as Garrick removed the cap of the pulmotor, and gently raised her head on his arm.
Guy Garrick 1908
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Warrington leaned over, as Garrick removed the cap of the pulmotor, and gently raised her head on his arm.
Guy Garrick 1908
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"This is the Draeger pulmotor," he explained as he worked,
The Poisoned Pen 1908
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Warrington leaned over, as Garrick removed the cap of the pulmotor, and gently raised her head on his arm.
Guy Garrick 1908
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Even then, you had been under it so long that we had to resort to the wonderful little pulmotor after trying both the Sylvester and
Gold of the Gods 1908
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