Definition of Oxygen mask

1. Noun. A breathing device that is placed over the mouth and nose; supplies oxygen from an attached storage tank.


Definition of Oxygen mask

1. Noun. A plastic or rubber mask through which oxygen may be breathed from a storage tank. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxygen Mask

oxygen debt
oxygen deficit
oxygen demand
oxygen dependent killing
oxygen depletion
oxygen deprivation theory of narcosis
oxygen derived free radicals
oxygen difluoride
oxygen effect
oxygen electrode
oxygen fluoride
oxygen gas
oxygen inhalation therapy
oxygen isotopes
oxygen lance
oxygen mask
oxygen masks
oxygen poisoning
oxygen pulse
oxygen radical
oxygen radioisotopes
oxygen stone
oxygen tank
oxygen tent
oxygen therapy
oxygen toxicity
oxygen utilization coefficient
oxygenase
oxygenases
oxygenate

Literary usage of Oxygen mask

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Screamfree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool by Hal Edward Runkel (2005)
"... Chapter Eleven Put on Your Own oxygen mask First Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. —William Shakespeare, Henry V Fritz and ..."

2. Transactions by National Safety Council, Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (1919)
"The principal trouble I experience with the oxygen mask is keeping the oxygen tank in good condition. It is a very delicately constructed piece of apparatus ..."

3. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Food and Drugs, Pt. 800-1299, Revised by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"... oxygen mask. (a) Identification. An oxygen mask is a device placed oven a patient's nose, mouth, ..."

4. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by James B. Stockdale (1995)
"Descending through 10000 feet, I unsnapped my oxygen mask and let it dangle, giving my pinched face a rest—no reason to stay uncomfortable on this run. ..."

5. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1994)
"... instructs the candidate in the use of the oxygen mask, and the candidate breathes 100 percent oxygen for 30 minutes. • After 30 minutes, the chamber is ..."

6. Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association by National Fire Protection Association (1896)
"For example, while a rubber oxygen mask is safe with oxygen at low pressure, coating the mask with vaseline or some other organic cream to make it more ..."

7. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"... (BLB) nasal oxygen mask. (Courtesy Walter M. Boothby and the Bruce Publishing Company.) AERO EMBOLISM AND EMPHYSEMA At levels above 25000 feet we ..."

8. United States Army Aircraft Production Facts by George Webber Mixter, Harold Hunter Emmons (1919)
"The oxygen mask was made of rubber, which contained a transmitter allowing him to speak as well as hear by wireless. This mask was attached by a flexible ..."

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