aerophore

Meaning

Noun

• A thin-walled area of the roots of some plants growing in swampy conditions through which gasses are exchanged.
• Aerophore pulmonaire; a respirator for use with neonates and small animals developed by French obstetrician Gairal in 1879.
• A predecessor of the radio, invented by Rene Homer in the early 1900s for communication between ships.
• A nineteenth-century device with breathing tubes used by miners and workmen in areas that contain toxic fumes.
• A predecessor of the aqualung, invented by Benoit Rouquayrol and Auguste Denayrouze 1865

Origin

• aero- + -phore