iron lung in English

noun
1
a rigid case fitted over a patient's body, used for administering prolonged artificial respiration by means of mechanical pumps.
The aircraft configuration accommodated specialized medical equipment such as an iron lung , orthopedic bed, artificial kidney machine, or infant incubator.

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1. I was in an iron lung for three months and in and out of the hospital for three years.

2. She contracted polio and at 36 years of age was placed in an iron lung, where she lay flat on her back for 37 years.

3. I can spend a few hours outside of it with my portable respirator depending on how I feel but I work and sleep in the iron lung.

4. First, it contains all of the songs (other than the title track, which appears on the first CD) of the "My Iron Lung" ep, which was released in 1994, the year before the Bends …

5. The following is excerpted from Chava Willig Levy's new memoir, A life Not with Standing.Chronicling the adventures of an iron lung alumna, it shatters stereotypes about people with disabilities, enabling others to view disability with pride, not prejudice.

6. Acrylics - Sinking In [2019] Iron lung Records 0:00 Haze 3:35 New Face 4:34 Retreat 7:37 Closer (Interlude) 8:45 Sinking In 12:46 Structure 15:18 Harm 19:23 Acrylics October 2, 2020 ·