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

The medic had been transporting Paul to and from hospital, as carers fought to keep him alive in the failing iron lung.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

Watch: Philip Alexander remembers his brother, 'the man in the iron lung'

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

Mr Richards had come into possession of two iron lung machines at a building clearance and he recalls how one day a paramedic walked in asking: "Is this the place I can find iron lungs?"

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

I’ve never seen an iron lung, but the newspapers had pictures of children in iron lungs, back when people still got polio.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood