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respirator

noun as in artificial lung

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First, respirator masks remain in short supply—even some health care facilities are still having trouble getting enough of them.

From Time

Surgical masks are more likely than respirator masks to have gaps big enough to allow air to leak through the side.

From Time

Michael Bowen is executive vice president of Prestige Ameritech in North Richland Hills, Texas, a maker of surgical masks and respirators.

You could sand off the paint while protecting your lungs with a high-quality disposable respirator.

Then 49, Topper started Alta after recovering from a fire at his home that left him on a respirator, with third-degree burns over 70% of his body.

“Republican Cuts Kill” is printed across the screen, with the only sound a person struggling to breathe through a respirator.

“I used gloves and a respirator, and protective clothing,” he says.

Ortega is in stable but critical condition on a respirator at Weill Cornell Medical Center.

But Carina Melchior did not die after her respirator was removed.

Instead, Anderson slipped into a coma and later died when his mother took him off a respirator on April 13.

He slipped a respirator over his head and moved into the corridor.

Then he got up, readjusted his handkerchief-respirator and mumbled that it was cerebro-spinal-something.

This was the type of respirator in use to the end of the fighting.

The use of an ori-nasal respirator of cotton wool has also been suggested.

The feet of the first rests on two grotesque human heads, probably Infidels; the second wears a mouth guard like a respirator.

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

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