Pulmotor

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]