Medical Dictionary

electrophrenic respiration

noun

Medical Definition of ELECTROPHRENIC RESPIRATION

:  artificial respiration by means of an electrophrenic respirator used especially in poliomyelitis and other conditions in which the nervous control of breathing is impaired

Browse

How to use a word that (literally) drives some people nuts.
Test your vocab with our fun, fast game
Ailurophobia, and 9 other unusual fears