Usually means: Mechanical respirator for breathing support.
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  1. iron lung: Merriam-Webster
  2. iron lung: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. iron lung: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. iron lung: Collins English Dictionary
  5. iron lung: Vocabulary.com
  6. iron lung: Wordnik
  7. iron lung: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. iron lung: Wiktionary
  9. iron lung: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. iron lung: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. iron lung: Dictionary.com
  12. Iron Lung (EP), Iron Lung (band), Iron Lung, Iron lung (disambiguation), Iron lung: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. iron lung: Rhymezone
  14. iron lung: FreeDictionary.org
  15. iron lung: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. iron lung: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. iron lung: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. iron lung: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. iron lung: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. iron lung: Medical dictionary

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  1. Iron Lung: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See iron_lungs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (iron lung)

noun:  A pneumonic device for assisted breathing.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A bung; a bribe.

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