Breathing machine

/bɹˈiːðɪŋ məʃˈiːn/

Breathing machine

a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure

Examples

1. They were on a breathing machine.

2. Most proteins are living, breathing machines, and it's hard to capture that in an X-ray structure.

3. But he did not want any life-prolonging interventions like CPR and breathing machines.

4. He was connected to a breathing machine and had a pulse with a normal rhythm.