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artificial lung

noun as in device to oxygenate blood

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Boy Kavalier forces Hermit to become his employee in exchange for remaining with his sister, and so he can work off the cost of an artificial lung Prodigy put inside him to save his life.

From Salon

With Bauer’s heart stabilized between the implants, surgeons created an artificial lung outside Bauer’s body.

Using a tube that is inserted into the patient’s neck and heart, the machine pumps blood from the body into an artificial lung.

The artificial lung then adds oxygen and filters out carbon dioxide before sending the blood back to the body.

It pumped blood from my body to an artificial lung, which added oxygen and removed carbon dioxide; it then sent the blood back into my body via a pump, with the same force as the heart.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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