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Artificial respiration   /ˌɑrtəfˈɪʃəl rˌɛspərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Artificial respiration

noun
1.
An emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificially.





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"Artificial respiration" Quotes from Famous Books



... play had to be stopped to allow the dashing of cold water over some unlucky chap, to bring him out of a half faint, and the number of lads who lost their wind, and had to have it pumped into them by artificial respiration was many. ...
— The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron • Graham B. Forbes
... you mean; but I won't have it. You sha'n't have any dead selves, my dear, because I shall insist on keeping them all alive by artificial respiration, or restoration from drowning, or something of that kind. Not one of them shall die with my permission; remember that. I'm ...
— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
... terrible game is being played to save it, there within twenty yards of them? If she could only have given active help! But that she knows is impossible. She knows enough to be satisfied that all that can be done is being done; that even warmth and stimulants are useless, perhaps even injurious, till artificial respiration has done its work. She can recall Sally's voice telling her of these things. Yes, she is best here ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan


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