mechanical ventilators meaning

• [Medicine]
  Mechanical devices used to produce or assist pulmonary ventilation.

• ventilators:    [Medicine]Mechanic ...
• mechanical:    Adjective: mechani ...
• pulmonary ventilators:    [Medicine]Mechanic ...

Examples

1. preventive effect and clinical significance of garlicin injection on mechanical ventilator-associated low respiratory tract deep-seated fungal infection
2. Initially, all the babies breathed with the aid of mechanical ventilators.
3. The twins remained in critical but stable condition Wednesday on mechanical ventilators.
4. University of Chicago researchers followed 128 very sick patients breathing through mechanical ventilators.
5. An alternative to a mechanical ventilator is diaphragm pacing.