heart-lung machine
3
5.1
- noun
- /hɑrt lʌŋ məˈʃin/
- Specialized
:
máquina corazón-pulmón
- The surgeon explained that the heart-lung machine would oxygenate the blood and maintain circulation during the operation.
- patient on a heart-lung machine
- use of the heart-lung machine
And so he said we have to devise a heart lung machine.
- And so he said we have to devise a heart lung machine.
Examples
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During the surgery, the team used a heart-lung machine to keep the patient alive while they repaired her heart.
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And this is what the first heart lung machine looks like.
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Well, we're gonna put her on a heart lung machine.
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Do you know what a heart-lung machine is, Peter?"
Fiction book (2000) -
A young boy is on the bed, his body tied by tubes to a heart-lung machine.
Fiction book (2002) -
Heart-lung machines are being universally applied.
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Heroic measures would be things like respirators, heart-lung machines, etc.
Blog text (8) -
After the patient was sedated, doctors connected him to the heart-lung machine, which would take over the heart's functions.
How Life-Sustaining
- Specialized
9
6.0
- Specialized
3
5.1
- Specialized
42
3.4
- Specialized
38
4.6
15
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
heart-lung + machine
The compound is transparently built from the names of the organs ('heart' + 'lung') plus 'machine', so a learner who knows those words can infer it is a device that performs the functions of the heart and lungs. The pattern 'X machine' (a machine that does X) is common and cross-linguistically parallel, so the overall meaning is immediately derivable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Heart-lung machine is named for what it does: a machine that acts as both the heart and the lungs during surgery. Imagine a box that pumps blood and adds oxygen while surgeons operate; that's why it means 'to take over the work of the heart and lungs' during surgery.