breathing machine

Questions about breathing machine

What does breathing machine mean?

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

What is another word for breathing machine?

Close synonyms include breathing device, breathing apparatus, 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 machine a common word?

breathing machine 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.