WordNet
n. a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure [syn: breathing device, breathing machine, ventilator]
Usage examples of "breathing apparatus".
I unbuckled the straps behind my neck and pulled off the closed circuit breathing apparatus.
If, when the lab door opens, I'm still wearing the suit and breathing apparatus, you can shoot me down.
The servant tried to scream and she shouldn't have, though it didn't make more than a minute's difference since neither she nor the Molts had breathing apparatus.
Isaac had observed that quicksilver, absorbed into his body, produced effects like those of coffee or tobacco, only more so, and so he used the breathing apparatus whenever he had begun to feel especially twitchy.
Medical case in hand, Jolly came coughing and spluttering his way back into the control center and started pulling on a suit and breathing apparatus.
Working in near-zero visibility with breathing apparatus on, you're practically as good as blind: the floods will make hardly any difference.
Even an individual suited up with breathing apparatus would have been noticed in the cargo hold, so that rules out shoulder-launched missiles.
Gustav was intrigued when he saw the special suits equipped with breathing apparatus.
I laid the breathing apparatus next to the chair and kept the white clothing on.
She had tried to rig a breathing apparatus for me, using a number 10 coffee can, but it hadnt worked.
As she made a move toward her regulator r-I indicate they could share the breathing apparatus, 171, jerked a knife out from his waistband and held it -wii.