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Categories: Poliomyelitis, 1928 introductions, Breathing apparatus, Medical pumps, All Wikipedia articles written in American English

iron lung pulmotor cuirass ventilator Drinker respirator Drinker tank

Respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration WordNet 3.0

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Respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

An iron lung is a type of negative pressure ventilator, a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body, and varies the air pressure in the enclosed space, to stimulate breathing. Wikipedia

Colloquial name for a negative pressure ventilator. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Type of negative pressure mechanical respirators Wikidata

An apparatus for producing artificial respiration by pumping oxygen and/or air into and out of the lungs, as of a person who has been asphyxiated by drowning, breathing poisonous gases, etc. Wiktionary

IS A

respirator

breathing device

negative pressure ventilator

HAS KIND

Both respirator

DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR

Philip Drinker

Louis Agassiz Shaw, Jr.

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iron lung

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