stomach pump

English

Noun

stomach pump (plural stomach pumps)

1. A syringe with a flexible tube for withdrawing fluids from the stomach, or injecting them into it.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life."

2. A gastric lavage.