Definitions for aspirator

aspirator as·pi·ra·tor

Spelling: [as-puh-rey-ter]
IPA: /ˈæs pəˌreɪ tər/

Aspirator is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 414 anagrams from letters in aspirator (aaioprrst).

Definitions for aspirator

noun

  1. an apparatus or device employing suction.
  2. Hydraulics. a suction pump that operates by the pressure differential created by the high-speed flow of a fluid past an intake orifice.
  3. Medicine/Medical. an instrument for removing body fluids by suction.

Origin of aspirator

First recorded in 1860-65; aspirate + -or2

Examples for aspirator

He grabbed for his aspirator, then tried to reach the airlock.

Through a tube stopped with cotton wool, Pasteur, by means of an aspirator, drew ordinary air.

There are several forms of aspirator; that invented by Brunner is perhaps one of the most convenient.

All doubt as to the nature of a given hydatid tumor of the liver may be set at rest by the use of the aspirator.

This last flask is connected with an aspirator, by means1211 of which a current of air is drawn through the apparatus.

The apparatus acts thus at the same time as aspirator and compressor.

aspirator, an instrument used to promote the flow of a gas from one vessel into another by means of a liquid.

At the end of the horizontal tube there is a three-way cock connecting with the air or an aspirator.

The fluid in the sinus has increased gradually since the evacuation of it with the aspirator.

When all diagnostic indications are at fault, the needle of the aspirator may decide the issue.

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