Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

iron lung en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A pneumonic device for assisted breathing.
    • To a polio victim who can no longer breathe for himself nothing is more disheartening than the thought of spending every hour of his life flat on his back in an iron lung. 1953 October 19, “A Better Break for Polio Patients”, in LIFE, Time Inc, page 127:
  2. (Cockney, slang) A bung; a bribe.
    • Most criminal cases, when I was practising, were paid for by SLAB, which kept a vice-like grip on the purse strings, paying a pittance no self-respecting plumber would get out of bed for, so an iron lung (bung) was the order of the day when dealing with the professionals of the underworld. 2023, James J. McIntyre, Jimmy Two Guns: The Life and Crimes of a Gangland Lawyer:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
iron lungs Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

life support

Hyponyms

Both respirator

Synonyms

negative pressure ventilator

Translations (18)

fi tankkirespiraattori (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · cmn 鐵肺 /铁肺 (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · fr poumon d'acier (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · es ventilador de presión negativa (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · es pulmotor (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · fi rautakeuhko (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · de eiserne Lunge (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · ru желе́зное лёгкое (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · sv järnlunga (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · pl żelazne płuco (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · sw pafu la chuma (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · ga scamhóg iarainn (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · ru аппара́т иску́сственного дыха́ния (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · es pulmón de acero (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · ja 鉄の肺 (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · ro plămân de oțel (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · ru аппара́т иску́сственной вентиля́ции лёгких (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing) · tl bagang pangyero (a pneumonic device for assisted breathing)