Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A device for removing liquids or gases by suction, especially an instrument that uses suction to remove substances, such as mucus or serum, from a body cavity.
  • noun A suction pump used to create a partial vacuum.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An apparatus for creating a vacuum by the action of a moving fluid.
  • noun A surgical instrument, consisting of a hollow needle, or trocar, connected with a suction-syringe, used in removing fluids from the cavities of the body.
  • noun A form of winnowing-machine employing aspiration instead of a blast. See aspiration, 6.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.
  • noun (Med.) An instrument for the evacuation of the fluid contents of tumors or collections of blood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A pump which draws gas through a liquid.
  • noun A pump for removing gases or liquids.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a pump that draws air or another gas through a liquid

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Examples

  • They used a tube, called an aspirator, that is about 30 inches long with a screen separation part way up the tube.

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  • He attaches the meconium aspirator to the suction tubing and I turn an oxygen valve.

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  • He chain-smoked cigarettes, sometimes with an aspirator to ease chronic asthma.

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  • He attaches the meconium aspirator to the suction tubing and I turn an oxygen valve.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • He chain-smoked cigarettes, sometimes with an aspirator to ease chronic asthma.

    Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies 2011

  • An aspirator locks onto cheek meat as tooth enamel softly smokes beneath the burr.

    Amalgam 2010

  • I could hear the sound of an aspirator, gently puffing and hissing away with mechanical breathes.

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  • Treatment includes saline drops in the nose and a nasal aspirator.

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  • An aspirator machine stood ready for the liposuction; large packs of gauze and two big bottles of Xylocaine and adrenalin, plus dark bottles of iodine were at hand.

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