The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pulmotor \Pul"mo`tor\, n. [L. pulmo lung + E. motor.] An apparatus for producing artificial respiration by pumping oxygen or air or a mixture of the two into and out of the lungs, as of a person who has been asphyxiated by drowning, breathing poisonous gases, or the like, or of one who has been stunned by an electrical shock.
Usage examples of "pulmotor".
Somewhere the Pulmotor squad raced, siren-screaming, through the night streets.
Counting as the drugs took effect, the pulmotor forced his lungs and heart into rhythm, the eddy currents warmed the frozen solidity of his flesh and blood.
While the Coast Guard boys worked on the girl with the pulmotor, George and Harvey carried you into the house here.
Then the heart stimulator, the pulmotor to activate the lungs, the drugs to numb the pain of returning circulation.
After the Tide had receded, Sylvester was found asleep among the Clams and Sea-Weed, apparently so far gone that a Pulmotor would be no help.
Then, when the rainstorm turned to sleet, he headed back home and was interested to see firemen on the edge of a lagoon, where they were using a pulmotor on a drowned man.
The pulmotor was applied and life giving oxygen was forced down into the lungs which had given up their job.