IRON LUNG

Meaning of IRON LUNG in English

Function: noun

Date: 1932

: a device for artificial respiration in which rhythmic alternations in the air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest force air into and out of the lungs

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

IRON LUNG — noun Date: 1932 a device for artificial respiration in which rhythmic alternations in the air pressure in a chamber surrounding …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
IRON LUNG — noun : a device for artificial respiration in which rhythmic alternations in the air pressure in a chamber surrounding a …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
IRON LUNG — a chamberlike respirator, formerly used in the treatment of poliomyelitis, that encloses the whole body except the head and in …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
IRON LUNG — medical device which simulates the action of the lungs
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
IRON LUNG — Date: 1932 : a device for artificial respiration in which rhythmic alternations in the air pressure in a chamber surrounding …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
IRON LUNG — ■ noun a rigid case fitted over a patient's body, used for administering prolonged artificial respiration by means of mechanical …
Concise Oxford English vocab
IRON LUNG — [iron lung] n (1932): a device for artificial respiration in which rhythmic alternations in the air pressure in a chamber …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
IRON LUNG — ˌiron ˈlung BrE AmE noun [countable] a large machine with a metal case used to help people to breathe
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
IRON LUNG — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Better had I been traveling with an iron lung . ▪ In my imagination and …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
IRON LUNG — Synonyms and related words : Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, breath, breath of air, breathing, broken wind, cough, exhalation, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
IRON LUNG — мед. аппарат для искусственного дыхания (медицина) искусственное легкое, аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
IRON LUNG — мед. искусственное лёгкое, аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
IRON LUNG — аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
IRON LUNG — мед. искусственное лёгкое, аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
IRON LUNG — мед. искусственное лёгкое, аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
IRON LUNG — аппарат искусственного дыхания
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
IRON LUNG — аппарат искусственного дыхания
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
IRON LUNG — мед. аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
IRON LUNG — мед. аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
IRON LUNG — _n. _мед. аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
IRON LUNG — n. мед. аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
IRON LUNG — аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
IRON LUNG — боксовый респиратор, кабинный респиратор, танковый респиратор, аппарат "железные легкие"
Новый Англо-Русский медицинский словарь
IRON LUNG — _n. _мед. аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
IRON LUNG — мед. аппарат для искусственного дыхания (медицина) искусственное легкое, аппарат для искусственного дыхания
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
LUNG — pulmon (-ari)
English interlingue dictionary
LUNG — baga
English-Visayan vocabulary
LUNG — noun see: light Date: before 12th century 1. one of the usually paired compound saccular thoracic organs that constitute the …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
LUNG — I Either of two light, spongy, elastic organs in the chest, used for breathing. Each is enclosed in a membrane …
Английский словарь Британика
IRON — I Metallic chemical element , one of the transition element s, chemical symbol Fe, atomic number 26. Iron is the …
Английский словарь Британика
LUNG — I. ˈləŋ noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English lunge, from Old English lungen; akin to Old High German lungun …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
IRON — I. ˈī(ə)rn, ˈīən sometimes chiefly for the sake of the meter in a line of poetry ˈīrən noun ( -s …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LUNG — (n.) An organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
Английский словарь Webster
LUNG — ( n. ) An organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
LUNG — — lunged /lungd/ , adj. /lung/ , n. 1. either of the two saclike respiratory organs in the thorax of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
IRON — — ironless , adj. — ironlike , adj. /uy"euhrn/ , n. 1. Chem. a ductile, malleable, silver-white metallic element, scarcely …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
LUNG — n. one of two saclike respiratory organs responsible for transferring oxygen into the bloodstream
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
IRON — I. ˈī(-ə)rn noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English īsern, īren; akin to Old High German īsarn iron Date: before …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LUNG — noun Etymology: Middle English lunge, from Old English lungen; akin to Old High German lungun lung, līhti light in weight …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
LUNG — noun an organ for aerial respiration; commonly in the plural.
Webster English vocab
IRON — noun rude; hard; harsh; severe. 2. iron ·noun fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles. 3. iron ·noun inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron …
Webster English vocab
LUNG — ■ noun each of the pair of organs within the ribcage into which air is drawn in breathing, so that …
Concise Oxford English vocab
LUNG — [lung] n [ME lunge, fr. OE lungen; akin to OHG lungun lung, lihti light in weight--more at light] (bef. 12c) …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
IRON — [iron] n [ME, fr. OE isern, iren; akin to OHG isarn iron] (bef. 12c) 1: a heavy malleable ductile magnetic …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
LUNG — in air-breathing vertebrates, either of the two large organs of respiration located in the chest cavity and responsible for aerating …
Britannica English vocabulary
LUNG — lung BrE AmE lʌŋ ▷ lunged lʌŋd ▷ lungs lʌŋz
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
LUNG — / lʌŋ; NAmE / noun either of the two organs in the chest that you use for breathing : lung …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
IRON — / ˈaɪən; NAmE ˈaɪərn/ noun , verb , adjective ■ noun METAL 1. [ U ] ( symb Fe ) …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LUNG — lung /lʌŋ/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ] one of the two organs in your body that …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
IRON — I. i ‧ ron 1 S2 W3 /ˈaɪən $ ˈaɪərn/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: isern …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
IRON — n., adj., & v. --n. 1 Chem. a silver-white ductile metallic element occurring naturally as haematite, magnetite, etc., much used …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LUNG — n. either of the pair of respiratory organs which bring air into contact with the blood in humans and many …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
IRON — n., adj., & v. n. 1 Chem. a silver-white ductile metallic element occurring naturally as haematite, magnetite, etc., much used …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LUNG — n. either of the pair of respiratory organs which bring air into contact with the blood in humans and many …
Oxford English vocab
IRON — n., adj., & v. --n. 1. Chem. a silver-white ductile metallic element occurring naturally as haematite, magnetite, etc., much used …
Oxford English vocab
IRON — ( irons, ironing, ironed) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Iron is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LUNG — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a heart/lung/skin etc condition ▪ I’m taking some medicine for a heart condition. a skin/brain/lung …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
IRON — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a paracetamol/quinine/iron etc tablet ▪ She's on iron tablets for her anaemia. a stone/wooden/iron …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
LUNG — [noun] [C] - either of the two organs in the chest with which people and some animals breatheShe breathed deeply …
Cambridge English vocab
LUNG — n. lung collapse brown lung disease Hei lung chiang Hei lung Chiang Lung men caves Lung shan culture lung cancer …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
LUNG — n. Either of two light, spongy, elastic organs in the chest, used for breathing. Each is enclosed in a membrane …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
IRON — n. magnetic iron ore iron pyrite bog iron ore cast iron Iron Act Iron Age Iron Curtain iron deficiency anemia …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
LUNG — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ collapsed , diseased , injured , punctured ▪ healthy ▪ transplanted VERB + LUNG ▪ fill ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
IRON — n. 25B6; noun a ship built of iron : metal, pig iron, cast iron, wrought iron. she needed some iron …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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