ventilator
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈvɛntɪˌleɪtər/
- Specialized
:
ventilador mecánico
- While still on ECMO and a ventilator, you had to relearn how to move your limbs, beginning with your finger and your toes.
- mechanical ventilator
- ventilator-dependent
- ventilator-associated pneumonia
Now it's who's got the fewest players on ventilators.
- Now it's who's got the fewest players on ventilators.
- OK, explain, Explain why you were on the ventilator.
- And so we can supply them with masks and gowns and with gloves and with ventilators and stuff like that.
- So we were one of the first countries to get back and we are putting people on ventilators.
- While still on ECMO and a ventilator, you had to relearn how to move your limbs, beginning with your finger and your toes.
- It could literally save their life, save them from an intensive care unit visit, save them from being on a ventilator.
- We hear a lot about ventilators and you know, we, we're getting these stories from the doctors on the front lines through social media.
Examples
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Hal, it's remarkable how well you've recovered from being on the ventilator.
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When the physicians refused to remove the ventilator, the family went to court.
Academic text (2011) -
And then by November, think of that year he was on the ventilator as life support.
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Maybe we'll leave the ventilator until morning.
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Have they removed the ventilator?
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So this portable ventilator has to be able to last that long, right, while still doing what it's supposed to do.
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Her parents asked her doctors to remove the "extraordinary procedure," a ventilator, that sustained her life.
Academic text (1994) -
Today, patients are routinely put on the ventilator in emergency departments and transferred to ICUs.
Academic text (2011) -
Respiratory failure was defined as continued use of a ventilator after postoperative day 2 or reintubation for respiratory distress.
Academic text (1999) -
The doctor explained that we need to put him on the ventilator to help him breathe properly.
Synonyms
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4.9
A machine that helps a person breathe by moving air into and out of their lungs
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3.4
A machine that helps a person get air into their lungs when they cannot do it on their own
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4.4
A device that helps a person breathe when the air is unsafe or not available
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3.9
A machine that helps a person take air into their lungs when they cannot do it themselves
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8.2
A device that helps a person breathe when they are not breathing
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8.2
A machine that helps someone breathe by giving air or oxygen
How Powerful
- Specialized
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3.4
- Specialized
38
4.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ventilator comes from the Latin ventilare ('to fan') and ventus ('wind'), so a medical ventilator is like a mechanical fan that moves air in and out of the lungs to help someone breathe.