stomach pump

noun

A syringe with a flexible tube for withdrawing fluids from the stomach, or injecting them into it.

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Meanings

nounstomach pump (plural stomach pumps)

plural stomach pumps

  1. medicineA syringe with a flexible tube for withdrawing fluids from the stomach, or injecting them into it.

    "If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life."

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. broadlymedicineA gastric lavage.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
gastric lavage
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APA

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Chicago

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