Medical Dictionary
mechanical ventilation
noun
Medical Definition of MECHANICAL VENTILATION
: artificial ventilation of the lungs (as by positive end-expiratory pressure) using means external to the body <the patient was sufficiently obtunded to require intubation and mechanical ventilation—Susan M. Pond et al>
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