WordNet
n. a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure [syn: breathing device, breathing apparatus, ventilator]
Usage examples of "breathing machine".
There was no motion, no sign of life save for the rhythmical hiss of the breathing machine.
The patient had embolized air to the brain during the operation and now was no more than a living vegetable totally dependent on a breathing machine, but with the quality of the nursing care at the Memorial, he could be expected to live indefinitely.
It was a stupid whim, unprofessional, really, but I suddenly wanted to be a woman sitting on top of that bastard mountain, a human being, not a breathing machine.
I imagined him hooked up to a breathing machine, his face covered with a mask, tubes sticking into him.
You've been rescued from a body riddled with polio and I've been rescued from a breathing machine and amputated limbs and a bashed in, burned up face that would have frightened even my mother.