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Artificial respiration   /ˌɑrtəfˈɪʃəl rˌɛspərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Artificial respiration

noun
1.
An emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificially.






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"Artificial respiration" Quotes from Famous Books



... external application of the Acetate of Morphia. 31, Cure of Urinary Calculi, by means of the internal use of the Bicarbonate of Soda. 32, Attempt to cure Abdominal Dropsy by exciting Peritoneal Inflammation. 33, Artificial Respiration. 34, Secale Cornutum. 35, Animal Magnetism. 36, Sketch of the Medical Literature of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. 37, Erysipelatous Mumps or Angina Parotidiana. 38, Taenia. 39, ...
— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... radical cure. The house surgeon, Mr. Oliphant, M.B., C.M. Edin., administered chloroform from lint. In about eight minutes the breathing ceased, the operation not having then been commenced. Upon artificial respiration being adopted the child appeared to rally, but sank almost immediately and died within two minutes. The necropsy showed no organic disease. At the inquest the coroner asked Dr. Oliphant whether an inhaler was not a better means ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 • Various

... the junction of the railroad and the Little Missouri began to flutter fitfully and ominously. Only the indomitable pluck of the Marquis and his deathless fecundity in conceiving new schemes of unexampled magnitude kept it alive at all. The Marquis's ability to create artificial respiration and to make the dead take on the appearance of life never showed to better effect than in that desolate year of 1887. His plan to slaughter cattle on the range for consumption along the line of the Northern Pacific was ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn

... is required. You must get air into his lungs again immediately or he may die. The best and simplest way of doing this is to use mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration. Here is how ...
— In Time Of Emergency - A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968) • Department of Defense

... astride with one knee on either side of Joel's body, and commenced pressing down regularly on the small of his back, so as to induce an artificial respiration. At the same time, Toby and one of the other fellows worked the unconscious boy's arms back and forth like a pair of pistons; while the third fellow started to ...
— Jack Winters' Baseball Team - Or, The Rivals of the Diamond • Mark Overton

... the movement cause the shins to rub on the sharp edges of the stool. To further increase the pain they took lighted cigarettes and burnt his flesh. This was continued until the student fainted and fell off. They then would restore the patient by artificial respiration and when he refused to confess, continued the torture. This process was continued for 45 minutes and then the student was put into a dark cell and kept for three days. Upon the third day he was again brought before these just ...
— Flash-lights from the Seven Seas • William L. Stidger



Words linked to "Artificial respiration" :   emergency procedure, respiration, kiss of life, cardiac resuscitation, breathing, external respiration, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, ventilation, CPR



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