Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that resuscitates, as an apparatus that forces oxygen or a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide into the lungs of a person who has undergone partial asphyxiation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who resuscitates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, resuscitates.
- noun (Med.) A device which is used to force oxygen or a mixture of oxygen and other gases into the lungs of patients who are suffering from asphyxiation, to revive the patient and induce resumption of respiration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or thing that
resuscitates . - noun medicine A
device , usually consisting of aface mask andtank , used to restore normalbreathing to a person by forcingoxygen or an oxygen-rich mixture ofgases into his or herlungs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration
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Examples
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The use of the Laerdal infant resuscitator results in the delivery of high oxygen fractions in the absence of a blender.
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The tools include a dry towel, a suction bulb and a hand-operated bag-and-mask resuscitator.
International Helping Babies Breathe course teaches newborn resuscitation 2010
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There were no late-night calls for me to perform an emergency lobotomy or yelling, “Clear!” and saving the life of a child with the heart resuscitator.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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I drove up to see if I could patch things up, but the marriage was on a resuscitator.
The Mob and Me John Partington 2010
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There were no late-night calls for me to perform an emergency lobotomy or yelling, “Clear!” and saving the life of a child with the heart resuscitator.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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There were no late-night calls for me to perform an emergency lobotomy or yelling, “Clear!” and saving the life of a child with the heart resuscitator.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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Their window in Gary, Indiana -- again designed by their visionary house artist, Monsieur Brouillard -- featured a diorama of a doctor and nurse trying to save a syphilitic baby with the help of a wheezing resuscitator.
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The doctors used the resuscitator briefly, then — as Kennedy's life signs continued to pick up — switched him back to oxygen.
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Nurses cut his clothes off to prepare him for a heart-lung resuscitator.
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It hasn't died, but it's on a resuscitator and there are some things that, you know, I think ought to be done to try and get us back to where we can promise the next generation a little better lifestyle than we can right this minute.
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