iron lung
Example Sentences
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Lane spent the next several months in an iron lung.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2024
He was allowed to venture into the neighbourhood in his wheelchair with childhood friends, returning to the iron lung when he was tired.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
After an emergency tracheostomy operation, he was unable to breathe without the iron lung machine that now encased his small body.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
In 2015, his iron lung began to leak.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
Cootie spent a year inside an iron lung that breathed for him, and he’d been in and out of hospitals ever since.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
