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  • n  respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration
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  • INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Who Was Doc Pomus?
    Few white pop-rock songwriters of the 1950s and '60s started out as miserably as Jerome Felder. Polio-stricken at age 7, Felder was placed in body casts and then an iron lung before he wound up in leg braces and crutches.
    Oct. 4, 2013 - All About Jazz

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