ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does artificial respiration mean? 

• ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION (noun)
  The noun ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION has 1 sense:

1. an emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificially

  Familiarity information: ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificially

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("artificial respiration" is a kind of...):

emergency procedure ((medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency))

breathing; external respiration; respiration; ventilation (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)

Holonyms ("artificial respiration" is a part of...):

cardiac resuscitation; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; CPR; kiss of life; mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen)

 Context examples 

Patients with breathing difficulties may need artificial respiration.

(Encephalitis, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

And then, at last, with artificial respiration, with injected ether, and with every device that science could suggest, some flutter of life, some quiver of the eyelids, some dimming of a mirror, spoke of the slowly returning life.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)