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mechanical pump

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mechanical pump [mi′kan·ə·kəl ′pəmp]
(mechanical engineering)
A pump through which fluid is conveyed by direct contact with a moving part of the pumping machinery.


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Professor Stephen Westaby of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford led the team that operated on Ioannis Manolopoulos in Thessaloniki, Greece, to fit him with the mechanical pump.
Professor Stephen Westaby, based at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, led the team that operated on Ioannis Manolopoulos in Thessaloniki, Greece, to fit him with the mechanical pump because his heart was too weak to push blood around his body.
Professor Stephen Westaby, from Oxford, led the team that fitted Ioannis Manolopoulos with the mechanical pump in Thessaloniki, Greece.
 
 
 
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