responaut

English

Etymology

respirator +‎ -naut

Noun

responaut (plural responauts)

(medicine) A patient who depends on a respirator in order to breathe.
- 1974, Dennis Lees, Stella Shaw, Impairment, Disability and Handicap: A Multi-disciplinary View:
  Those responauts with severe respiratory impairment (Grade IV) have three times as much machine maintenance as the other responauts.

Translations

patient who depends on respirator

Finnish: hengityskone potilas

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