oxygen mask
noun
: a device worn over the nose and mouth through which oxygen is supplied from a storage tank
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Ruby Perkins remembers watching Workman-Duffy’s mother approach her daughter as medics bent over her with an oxygen mask.
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Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2025
After a lengthy delay, Mpome was taken off on a stretcher wearing an oxygen mask.
—Luke Bosher, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
In a video added to Johnson's Instagram Stories, Rome smiled and giggled as the paramedic talked with him, moving to place the oxygen mask on his face.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Some pilots even needed oxygen masks.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
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Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2025
After a lengthy delay, Mpome was taken off on a stretcher wearing an oxygen mask.
—Luke Bosher, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
In a video added to Johnson's Instagram Stories, Rome smiled and giggled as the paramedic talked with him, moving to place the oxygen mask on his face.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Some pilots even needed oxygen masks.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Oxygen mask.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxygen%20mask. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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