aspirator
Americannoun
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an apparatus or device employing suction.
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Hydraulics. a suction pump that operates by the pressure differential created by the high-speed flow of a fluid past an intake orifice.
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Medicine/Medical. an instrument for removing body fluids by suction.
noun
Etymology
Origin of aspirator
Example Sentences
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Eddie Kaspbrak: Eddie’s mother is obsessed with his health and convinces him that he has asthma that needs to be treated with an aspirator.
From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2017
She told the officers that Roderius “had a little cold,” so she’d stopped by Crawford’s house the day before to drop off a nasal aspirator.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 29, 2015
The device hanging from my lips was an aspirator.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2014
A centrifuge is often used to separate the heavy kernels from the light hulls, which an aspirator may suck upward and out of the heap.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2013
Protruding from the elastic pocket on the outside of one arm was an aspirator, along with two or three pill bottles.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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