Respirator
noun
A device you wear over your mouth and nose to help you breathe clean air or more easily.
The patient with lung disease was put on a respirator.

Often appears as...
- wear a respirator
- put on a respirator
noun
A machine in a hospital that helps or controls a person's breathing.
When his condition worsened, he was moved to intensive care and put on a respirator.

Often appears as...
- put on a respirator
- respirator in intensive care
noun
A device you wear over your mouth and nose to help you breathe clean air or more easily.
The patient with lung disease was put on a respirator.

Often appears as...
- wear a respirator
- put on a respirator
noun
A machine in a hospital that helps or controls a person's breathing.
When his condition worsened, he was moved to intensive care and put on a respirator.

Often appears as...
- put on a respirator
- respirator in intensive care
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Protective Gear
Refers to personal safety equipment against pollutants, dust, or diseases.

Construction workers must wear a respirator to avoid inhaling harmful particles.
Not Only Gas Masks
While similar, a respirator often provides higher filtration than a typical gas mask.

During the fire, the firefighters used respirators to keep smoke out of their lungs.
Workplace Usage
Commonly used where air quality may be hazardous, like in industrial or medical settings.

The lab technician donned a respirator before entering the contaminated area.
Protective Gear
Refers to personal safety equipment against pollutants, dust, or diseases.

Construction workers must wear a respirator to avoid inhaling harmful particles.
Not Only Gas Masks
While similar, a respirator often provides higher filtration than a typical gas mask.

During the fire, the firefighters used respirators to keep smoke out of their lungs.
Workplace Usage
Commonly used where air quality may be hazardous, like in industrial or medical settings.

The lab technician donned a respirator before entering the contaminated area.
Protective Gear
Refers to personal safety equipment against pollutants, dust, or diseases.

Construction workers must wear a respirator to avoid inhaling harmful particles.
Not Only Gas Masks
While similar, a respirator often provides higher filtration than a typical gas mask.

During the fire, the firefighters used respirators to keep smoke out of their lungs.
Workplace Usage
Commonly used where air quality may be hazardous, like in industrial or medical settings.

The lab technician donned a respirator before entering the contaminated area.
Video examples
Free-Tailed Bats: On...
wearing a full respirator kit, which in the middle of the desert in 100% humidity is the last thing you really want. The visor is filling with sweat. It's like in a leaky diving mask. Now, for the surgical gloves. There's a massive amount of preparation before going into the bat cave. It's to protect ourselves.
Video examples
Resurrecting Notre-Dame...
i took a taxi there and it was still dark when i got there it's kind of like entering a space station or something that you show up shed all your clothes put it in lockers go through this vestibule and you come out on the other side wearing a climbing helmet a respirator mask and a hazmat
Video examples
Searching For Life in...
And it was unlike any other camping experience I'd ever had. Right outside your tent window, there is constantly a plume of toxic sulfur dioxide. You had to go with a respirator whenever you went outside. It was also smart to wear long sleeves. There are tiny microscopic basaltic needles
Video examples
Romina Libster: The...
In just two days she was connected to a respirator and on the third day she died. Sol had whooping cough. After discussing the case in the room and after a quite distressing catharsis, I remember my chief resident said to me, "Okay, take a deep breath. Wash your face.
Video examples
Mary Roach: 10 things...
And it is a fact that you can trigger spinal reflexes in dead people -- a certain kind of dead person, a beating-heart cadaver. Now this is somebody who is brain-dead, legally dead, definitely checked out, but is being kept alive on a respirator,
Video examples
How trees talk to each...
Oh, and I forgot some stuff, important the bug spray, the bear spray, the filters for my respirator. Oh well. The first day of the experiment, we got out to our plot and a grizzly bear and her cub chased us off.
Video examples
The biology of our best...
It's not hard to imagine once I allow myself. Sever his spine at the neck. Take out his eyes with a blunt instrument. Puncture his eardrums. Cut out his tongue. Leave him alive on a respirator,
Video examples
Gory Crime-Scene Cleanup...
crime scene cleaners nausea is just part of the job I have to get it done I mean there's not much of a choice as my rap on the line so I'm gonna get it done even if I'm puking in my respirator
Video examples
Eating Poison Fish PIPE...
kill you the neurotoxin kills by paralyzing nerves victims can't move or breathe but they are fully conscious until their lungs fail the only way to save victims is to use a respirator to
Video examples
CIA Mind Control PIPE CIA...
material and they taped them to our forearm they then gave us each a respirator and that we were not under any circumstances
Video examples
Free-Tailed Bats: On...
wearing a full respirator kit, which in the middle of the desert in 100% humidity is the last thing you really want. The visor is filling with sweat. It's like in a leaky diving mask. Now, for the surgical gloves. There's a massive amount of preparation before going into the bat cave. It's to protect ourselves.
Video examples
Resurrecting Notre-Dame...
i took a taxi there and it was still dark when i got there it's kind of like entering a space station or something that you show up shed all your clothes put it in lockers go through this vestibule and you come out on the other side wearing a climbing helmet a respirator mask and a hazmat
Video examples
Searching For Life in...
And it was unlike any other camping experience I'd ever had. Right outside your tent window, there is constantly a plume of toxic sulfur dioxide. You had to go with a respirator whenever you went outside. It was also smart to wear long sleeves. There are tiny microscopic basaltic needles
Video examples
Romina Libster: The...
In just two days she was connected to a respirator and on the third day she died. Sol had whooping cough. After discussing the case in the room and after a quite distressing catharsis, I remember my chief resident said to me, "Okay, take a deep breath. Wash your face.
Video examples
Mary Roach: 10 things...
And it is a fact that you can trigger spinal reflexes in dead people -- a certain kind of dead person, a beating-heart cadaver. Now this is somebody who is brain-dead, legally dead, definitely checked out, but is being kept alive on a respirator,
Video examples
How trees talk to each...
Oh, and I forgot some stuff, important the bug spray, the bear spray, the filters for my respirator. Oh well. The first day of the experiment, we got out to our plot and a grizzly bear and her cub chased us off.
Video examples
The biology of our best...
It's not hard to imagine once I allow myself. Sever his spine at the neck. Take out his eyes with a blunt instrument. Puncture his eardrums. Cut out his tongue. Leave him alive on a respirator,
Video examples
Gory Crime-Scene Cleanup...
crime scene cleaners nausea is just part of the job I have to get it done I mean there's not much of a choice as my rap on the line so I'm gonna get it done even if I'm puking in my respirator
Video examples
Eating Poison Fish PIPE...
kill you the neurotoxin kills by paralyzing nerves victims can't move or breathe but they are fully conscious until their lungs fail the only way to save victims is to use a respirator to
Video examples
CIA Mind Control PIPE CIA...
material and they taped them to our forearm they then gave us each a respirator and that we were not under any circumstances
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Quote examples
Ann Leckie
American Author
What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!

Quote examples
Forrest Bird
American Inventor
I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.

Quote examples
Ann Leckie
American Author
What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!

Quote examples
Forrest Bird
American Inventor
I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.

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