aspirator
(ˈæspɪreɪtə(r))
[n. of agent f. (on L. analogies) L. aspīrāre: see aspire v. and -ator. Cf. F. aspirateur.]
He who or that which aspirates, breathes, or blows upon; spec. a. an apparatus for drawing a stream of air or gas through a tube; b. an instrument for evacuating pus from abscesses by means of an exhausted receiver; c. a kind of winnowing or fanning machine.
| 1863 Watts Dict. Chem. I. 427 Mohr's aspirator has the form of an ordinary gasometer. 1878 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. 20, I have drawn off the pus from a chronic abscess with the aspirator. 1883 E. Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. June 76/1 The wheat..falls into an aspirator on the seventh floor. |