WordNet
breathing device
n. a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure [syn: breathing apparatus, breathing machine, ventilator]
Usage examples of "breathing device".
He was slapping some sort of unit on Lodec's face, a breathing device with goggles attached.
SANDSNORK: breathing device for pumping surface air into a sandcovered stilltent.
Face to face, Boggs could see the breathing device dangling from his dive suit and the black hair draining over his bulging forehead.
They went drifting, swimming through a part of the Ship where gravity was turned off, and though there was air Basil made him wear a breathing device just in case.
Qui-Gon inserted a small breathing device into his mouth and flipped a switch that opened the circular front hatch.