| 单词 | gas and air |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgas and air gas and air n. Medicine a mixture of nitrous oxide gas and air or oxygen, administered by inhalation to provide pain relief, esp. during labour.Frequently as a modifier. ΚΠ 1934 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 May 914/1 In twenty-seven of the cases the gas-and-air was given only for the second stage of labour. 1959 Woman 16 May 23/2 An officious nurse plonked down a gas and air mask on my face. 1993 F. Weldon Trouble 175 I don't want to hold my birth partner's hand, I want gas-and-air and an epidural and a nurse I've never met. 2010 D. Devonshire Wait for Me! x. 139 For this last confinement, Dr Evans had borrowed a contraption called a gas and air machine, used as an analgesic in childbirth. < as lemmas |
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