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Noun: oxygen tent
  1. (medicine) a canopy for the head and shoulders, or a similar enclosure for the whole body, within which air having a higher than normal supply of oxygen can be administered to a patient
    "The patient with severe pneumonia was placed in an oxygen tent to help with breathing"

Derived forms: oxygen tents

Encyclopedia: Oxygen tent