iron lung
Example Sentences
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Lane spent the next several months in an iron lung.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024
After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his small body.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
He had to deal with the surprise of clients on entering his office and seeing him in his iron lung.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
Mr Richards had come into possession of two iron lung machines at a building clearance and he recalls how one day a paramedic walked in asking: "Is this the place I can find iron lungs?"
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
I’ve never seen an iron lung, but the newspapers had pictures of children in iron lungs, back when people still got polio.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
