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BVM

BVM is the initialism of bag valve mask.

BVM is the initialism of Blessed Virgin Mary.

Meaning of bag valve mask

Noun

bag valve mask (plural bag valve masks)

  1. A bag used to resuscitate a patient by supplying air or oxygen directly to the trachea and into the lungs.
    Synonyms:
    BVM, ambu bag, ambubag, artificial manual breathing unit, AMBU, Ambu resuscitator, manual resuscitator, self-inflating bag, bag

Meaning of Blessed Virgin Mary

Proper noun

(the) Blessed Virgin Mary

  1. Synonym of Virgin Mary (“Mary, mother of Jesus”).
    • “Rust” has elements of Tara Westover’s “Educated,” but Goldbach’s background is not as extreme. She went to Catholic schools and asked the Blessed Virgin Mary for a sign that she should become a nun.2020 March 3, Mary Norris, “Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill”, in The New York Times

Forms of BVM

pluralBVMs
alternative formB.V.M.

Questions about BVM

What is BVM the initialism of?
BVM is the initialism of bag valve mask.

Words near BVM in the dictionary

  1. BVHs
  2. BVI
  3. BVIslander
  4. BVIslanders
  5. BVLOS
  6. BVM
  7. BVMs
  8. BVO
  9. BVP
  10. BVR
  11. BVRAAM

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BVM (page history and authors); bag valve mask (page history and authors); Blessed Virgin Mary (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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