mechanical ventilation

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A mode of assisted or controlled ventilation using mechanical devices that cycle automatically to generate airway pressure.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
He once told me that he only vaguely understood “the mechanical aspects of sex” until he was in his early twenties.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is provided with best conditions for water supply, heating and ventilation.
North Korea's Top College: Brainwash U|Justin Rohrlich|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The sounds are less mechanical and more lush, more concert hall than dance floor.
Is Bigger Better for St. Vincent?|David Yaffe|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Crowd labor platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk operate with few rules and little protection for workers.
Amazon’s Turkers Kick Off the First Crowdsourced Labor Guild|Kevin Zawacki|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the preceding chapter an examination has been made of the purely mechanical side of the era of machine production.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The approach of these mechanical monsters opens up vistas thronged with shadowy forebodings.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
Go carefully over the film with an oil-immersion lens, using a mechanical stage if available.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
The door to the back room opened, letting through a blend of talk and small mechanical noises.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
In the days of mechanical action, couplers of any kind proved a source of trouble and added greatly to the weight of the touch.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller