Noun
A contrivance for effecting ventilation; especially, a contrivance or machine for drawing off or expelling foul or stagnant air from any place or apartment, or for introducing that which is fresh and pure.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior. Lucy Larcom
To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart. Marjane Satrapi
Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote. Stanisław Lem
Abayomi had said many of the cases in the state were mild and moderate with none of the cases on ventilator. Source: Internet
A 30-year-old federal inmate died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, four weeks after giving birth while she was on a ventilator, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Source: Internet
About 7,570 people remained hospitalized with COVID-19 as of Friday morning, with more than 1,600 in critical care and on ventilator support. Source: Internet