ventilator

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Related topics: Buildings, Hospital

1. TBBAIRa piece of equipment that puts fresh air into a room, building etc 通风装置；排气风扇，送风机 → fan

2 MHa piece of equipment that pumps air into and out of someone’s lungs 人工呼吸机

on a ventilator

He was put on a ventilator but died two hours later.

他上了呼吸机，不过两小时后还是死亡了。

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ventilator• Her condition remained critical and she was sedated and placed on a ventilator.• Kelsey spent five weeks on a ventilator and still needed extra oxygen until last week.• Look at the cost of staging and shelving as well as automatic ventilators, insulation and shading materials.• She could hear ventilators pumping somewhere deeper in the complex, but they didn't seem to be equal to the job.• It talked or sometimes yelled through its ventilators, too.• Neither officer seems to wear cords on the M1889 field hat, identified by its lack of brass screen ventilators.• Here, the patient, though chronically dependent on the ventilator is a conscious, sentient person.• There is no doubt that the ventilator may be turned off when in fact, the patient is already dead.

put on a ventilator• Miss T. was put on a ventilator and paralysing drugs were administered.

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