NOUN
- 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
How To Use iron lung In A Sentence
- Better had I been traveling with an iron lung.
- The iron lung became an icon of the polio years.
- I also see that it is separate from the memory I hold of Mother in the iron lung.
- In my imagination and nightmares I have done time in an iron lung.
- Some patients did emerge from iron lungs and resume their normal lives, fully recovered.
- The iron lung encased Virginia in a vacuum.
- Ideally, hospitals provided each iron lung patient a single nurse, but few hospitals could manage that, especially during epidemics.
- She went quickly; by afternoon, she was in the iron lung and she died the next morning.
- Although Middleton had no freedom of action, but remained optimistic, and never felt sorry. That the use of the "iron lung", she was still with.
- Her respirator was the modern cuirass type: a Spira-shell: not the old totally enclosed iron lung. Forfeit
