stomach pump
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[edit]Noun
[edit]stomach pump (plural stomach pumps)
- A syringe with a flexible tube for withdrawing fluids from the stomach, or injecting them into it.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "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."
- A gastric lavage.