artificial lung
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To address this, the medical team developed an artificial lung system designed to temporarily take over the lungs' role.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2026
An artificial lung, a last resort for patients with lungs ravaged by the disease, was keeping a 53-year-old man alive.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2021
It extracts blood from the body and circulates it through an artificial lung that removes carbon dioxide and adds oxygen before returning the blood to the body.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2021
The brother recovered after 12 days, but her father, a retired scientist in his 80s, went from a ventilator to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an artificial lung of sorts.
From Science Magazine ● May 5, 2020
A pulmotor," replied the doctor, working quickly and carefully, "an artificial lung.
From Constance Dunlap by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
