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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ventilator
noun
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▪ Her condition remained critical and she was sedated and placed on a ventilator.
▪ Here, the patient, though chronically dependent on the ventilator is a conscious, sentient person.
▪ It talked or sometimes yelled through its ventilators, too.
▪ Kelsey spent five weeks on a ventilator and still needed extra oxygen until last week.
▪ Look at the cost of staging and shelving as well as automatic ventilators, insulation and shading materials.
▪ Neither officer seems to wear cords on the M1889 field hat, identified by its lack of brass screen ventilators.
▪ She could hear ventilators pumping somewhere deeper in the complex, but they didn't seem to be equal to the job.
▪ There is no doubt that the ventilator may be turned off when in fact, the patient is already dead.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ventilator

Ventilator \Ven"ti*la`tor\, n. [Cf. F. ventilateur, L. ventilator a winnower.] A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ventilator

1743, agent noun from ventilate. Latin ventilator meant "a winnower."

Wiktionary
ventilator

n. 1 A device that circulates fresh air and expels stale or noxious air. 2 (context medicine English) A respirator.

WordNet
ventilator

  1. n. a device (such as a fan) that introduces fresh air or expels foul air

  2. a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure [syn: breathing device, breathing apparatus, breathing machine]

Usage examples of "ventilator".

Through the ventilator grilles she could clearly hear the sounds of thumping and tapping and slithering of other-species ambulatory appendages overhead, and the indescribable babbie of growling, hissing, gobbling, and cheeping conversation that accompanied it.

A model of a Gray alien stood in the corner, and obsessively detailed polystyrene hobby-kit flying saucers hung on black invisible threads from the ceiling, swaying erratically in the ventilator breeze.

He brought Milly to see the Reddons where they were established behind a ventilator on the rear deck.

His mind and body were absorbed by the act of superimposing the laser designation reticle onto the ventilator shaft of the bunker below.

The storehouses were rectangular, with steep roofs that had a wide overhang on all sides, and screened ventilators at the ends.

The subliminal thuttering roar of the drive ceased, leaving only the quiet drone of the ventilators.

The cinders were removed by another pipe, most ingeniously contrived, which also answered the purpose of a ventilator.

Catherine Drake, the neonatologist, as she peered over black-rimmed reading glasses to adjust the ventilator settings.

Daikoff strode to the forecastle where Watches and Ool had held their whispered conversation, and from the ventilator removed a small compact dictograph device which had been lowered there.

The little autofire pistol spat, the bullets shredding the construction plastic of the ventilator beside me.

Latticeworks of girders and metal tubing adorned its sides in irregular and untidy clusters, in some places extending fully from floor to roof, supporting a confusion of catwalks, ladders, platforms, ramps, rigs, and winches wreathed intermittently in bewildering tangles of hydraulic and pneumatic feed tubes, ventilator pipes and electrical supply lines.

The ventilator fans forced the air to move in its accustomed direction, from the Eldest of the amaryllis sisterhood downdrift, and acquire messages in order of dominance within the hierarchy.

Only the marikh branch line, the snout-like ends of air and ventilator shafts and a half-dozen or so iceboats tied to a snow covered pier provided the evidence that a human township existed there at all.

The chart-house occupies the place of the old boiler-room ventilator, and abuts on the fore-deck.

Tell them we need patrols to check out that ventilator area and to catch that guy.