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heart-lung machine
heart-lung ma·chine (plural heart-lung ma·chines)


noun 
Definition:
 
machine that pumps blood during surgery: a machine that is used to take over the functions of the heart and lungs in pumping and oxygenating the blood, chiefly during heart surgery
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