aerophores

Noun

aerophore (plural aerophores)

1. A thin-walled area of the roots of some plants growing in swampy conditions through which gasses are exchanged.
   • Segments with more than 25 pairs of veins; indusium minute, ciliate. soon disappearing; a linear-attenuate brown aerophore present at base of each pinna 16.1977, Richard Alden Howard, Flora of the Lesser Antilles: Proctor, G. R. Pteridophyta, page 276
2. Aerophore pulmonaire; a respirator for use with neonates and small animals developed by French obstetrician Gairal in 1879.
   • The Aerophore was attached as soon as respiration ceased and was continued for three minutes at which time the animal began to breathe spontaneously.1944 February, AH Maloney, “Artificial Respiration and the Revair Aerophore”, in Anesthesia & Analgesia, volume 23, number 1
3. (historical) A predecessor of the radio, invented by Rene Homer in the early 1900s for communication between ships.
   • The aerophore will be placed in operation some time during the coming season by the Great Lakes Radio Telephone Company, in conjunction with the wireless telephone.1909, Hugo Gernsback, Charles Augustus Le Quesne, Austin Celestin Lescarboura, Modern Electrics Volume 2, Issue 1, page 21
4. (historical) A nineteenth-century device with breathing tubes used by miners and workmen in areas that contain toxic fumes.
   • The aerophore consists of a number of large or small cylinders as desired, which are lowered into the place with the workman. Connected with the cylinders is a long flexible tube almoast an inch in diameter of such strength that it cannot be damaged even by being trod upon.1874, Scientific American, page 132
5. (historical) A predecessor of the aqualung, invented by Benoit Rouquayrol and Auguste Denayrouze 1865
   • Predecessor of modern scuba was the 1865 aerophore invention of Rouquayrol and Denayrouze.1992, Richard A. Clinchy, Glen H. Egstrom, Lou Fead, Jeppesen's Open Water Sport Diver Manual, →ISBN, page 53