单词 | artificial lung |
释义 | artificial lungn. Medicine. Any of various devices designed to assist breathing or to behave like a lung; (in later use esp.) a device connected to the pulmonary circulation to carry out oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange. Cf. iron lung n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > life-supporting equipment > [noun] > breathing equipment resuscitator1831 artificial lung1844 respirator1854 inhaler1864 Fleuss1882 bottle1888 tent1892 pulmotor1910 oxygen mask1920 oxygen tent1925 inhalator1929 iron lung1930 cuirass1939 cuirass respirator1939 breathing apparatus1940 Ambu1960 ventilator1961 1844 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 24 270 A life-preserving shirt front..containing within it an apparatus constructed with air-proof cells... The front of the apparatus assumes its place exactly over and upon the cavity of the chest and lungs; forming, as it were, an additional artificial lung. 1870 Cent. Mag. Nov. 29/2 This result is obtained by means of an artificial lung... The diver carries this apparatus on his back. 1916 D. C. Miller Sci. Musical Sounds viii. 244 Marage of Paris has obtained vowel sounds by means of artificial larynxes and mouth and nasal cavities..combined with artificial lungs made of bellows and an electric motor. 1932 Armchair Sci. June 171 (caption) Little five-year old Rita Sigmund, who has lived for the past seven months in the ‘artificial lung’ of the Monmouth Hospital..after contracting infantile paralysis. 1985 J. Liedloff Continuum Concept v. 129 When one of his addict patients saw another patient in an artificial lung, she became enraged, and demanded the lung for herself. 2001 Pop. Sci. Aug. 33/2 Appropriately called the Hattler Respiratory Catheter, this ‘artificial lung’ may ultimately benefit up to 700,000 patients a year who suffer from serious respiratory damage. 2003 G. Burn North of Eng. Home Service (2004) ii. 52 All the walls pounded evenly with a deep blood pulse to relentless programmed music, like an artificial lung. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1844 |
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