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ventilator

[ ven-tl-ey-ter ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that ventilates.
  2. a contrivance or opening for replacing foul or stagnant air with fresh air.
  3. 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

/ ˈ±¹É›²Ô³Ùɪˌ±ô±ðɪ³ÙÉ™ /

noun

  1. an opening or device, such as a fan, used to ventilate a room, building, etc
  2. med a machine that maintains a flow of air into and out of the lungs of a patient who is unable to breathe normally
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of ventilator1

First recorded in 1735–45; ventilat(e) + -or 2
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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.

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Back in my hometown Mumbai, one of my closest friends lay critical on a ventilator in hospital.

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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.

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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.

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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.â€

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