Aerophore

Quick meaning: Aerophore is a noun meaning (botany) A thin-walled area of the roots of some plants growing in swampy conditions through which gasses are exchanged.

Meaning

(botany) A thin-walled area of the roots of some plants growing in swampy conditions through which gasses are exchanged.

More Meanings

1. (medicine) Aerophore pulmonaire; a respirator for use with neonates and small animals developed by French obstetrician Gairal in 1879.
2. (underwater diving, historical) A predecessor of the aqualung, invented by Benoit Rouquayrol and Auguste Denayrouze 1865
3. (historical) A predecessor of the radio, invented by Rene Homer in the early 1900s for communication between ships.
4. (historical) A nineteenth-century device with breathing tubes used by miners and workmen in areas that contain toxic fumes.

Example Sentences

The mouths and noses of the rats were covered with an aerophore to allow them to breathe in the water.

The Aerophore was attached as soon as respiration ceased and was continued for three minutes at which time the animal began to breathe spontaneously.

Segments with more than 25 pairs of veins; indusium minute, ciliate. soon disappearing; a linear-attenuate brown aerophore present at base of each pinna 16.

In the late 1800's Gairal, a French obstetrician, developed the “aerophore pulmonaire” which provided intermittent positive pressure ventilation of newborn infants.

Word Forms

• aerophores

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pneumatophore, aerophile, aerophyte, anaerophyte, aeropyle, edaphophyte.

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