breathing device

Questions about breathing device

What does breathing device mean?

breathing device means "a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure".

What is another word for breathing device?

Close synonyms include breathing apparatus, breathing machine, ventilator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breathing device a common word?

breathing device is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.