iron lung

Example Sentences

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Lane spent the next several months in an iron lung.

From Los Angeles Times

After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his small body.

From BBC

After he was paralyzed by polio at age 6, Paul Alexander was confined for much of his life to a yellow iron lung that kept him alive.

From New York Times

Alexander was 6 when he began using an iron lung, a cylinder that encased his body as the air pressure in the chamber forced air into and out of his lungs.

From Seattle Times

The polio survivor known as "the man in the iron lung" has died at the age of 78.

From BBC