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Medical instrument taking fluids from cavities
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aspirator
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A medical aspirator is a small suction machine used to remove mucus and other bodily fluids from a patient. These machines are often designed to be portable for use in ambulances and nursing homes , and can run on AC/DC or battery power. In the past manually ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aspirator \As"pi*ra`tor\, n. (Chem.) An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction. (Med.) An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a pump that draws air or another gas through a liquid
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A pump which draws gas through a liquid. 2 A pump for removing gases or liquids.
Usage examples of aspirator.
Eddie realized with real panic that he had packed the whole damned drugstore and had left the most important thing of all - his aspirator - downstairs on top of the stereo cabinet.
And now I've got a fever, Marty, only it's a fever you can't damp down with aspirin, and I've got a shortness of breath the goddamned aspirator won't touch, because that shortness of breath isn't in my throat or my lungs - it is around my heart.
He groped for the aspirator, found it, pointed it down his throat, and pulled the trigger.
Henry Bowers - who looked a little bit like someone had run him through a Disposall - had mashed Eddie's nose and then Eddie's asthma had come on strong and few aspirator turned up empty.
He saw Bill toss the aspirator into his bike-basket and mount clumsily.
HydrOx Mist (Administer as needed typed neatly on the gummed label he pasted on each aspirator bottle) was wonderfully cheap, but even Mrs Kaspbrak was willing to admit that it controlled her son's asthma quite well in spite of that fact.
He had taken another gulp from his aspirator and was breathing normally again.
Eddie had to use his aspirator once, and then his chest lightened and his throat seemed to widen magically to the size of a freeway.
Down here in the Barrens that didn't get him in much trouble, but the Barrens weren't Never-Never Land and they couldn't be the Wild Boys for more than a few hours at a stretch (the idea of a Wild Boy with an aspirator in his back pocket made Eddie smile).
Eddie reached automatically for his aspirator, pulled it out of his back pocket, and held it in his hand.
She kept telling him how delicious they were and what a treat he was missing until he started to gasp for breath and had to use his aspirator.
Halfway through the telling he began to gasp and had to use his aspirator.
He took his aspirator out of his pocket and sucked in on it with a monstrous gasp.
Eddie took another wheezing pull on his aspirator and then told the story of the leper again, speaking as rapidly as Ben had slowly, his words tumbling over one another in their urgency to escape and be gone.
He leaned over, put one thin arm around Stan's slumping shoulders, jammed his aspirator into Stan's mouth, and triggered off a big blast.