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stomach pumps

stomach pumps is the plural of stomach pump.

Meaning of stomach pump

Noun

stomach pump (plural stomach pumps)

  1. A syringe with a flexible tube for withdrawing fluids from the stomach, or injecting them into it.
    • "If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  2. (broadly) A gastric lavage.

Questions about stomach pumps

What is stomach pumps the plural of?
Stomach pumps is the plural of stomach pump.

Words near stomach pumps in the dictionary

  1. stomach lining
  2. stomach linings
  3. stomach oil
  4. stomach oils
  5. stomach pump
  6. stomach pumps
  7. stomach staggers
  8. stomach sweetbread
  9. stomach sweetbreads
  10. stomach ulcer
  11. stomach ulcers

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