stomach pump

noun — 2 senses

stomach pump

noun
1

Medicine, Sciences 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

Medicine, Sciences Broadly A gastric lavage.

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