What's the difference between breath and expel?

Breath


Definition:

  • (n.) The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic acid, aqueous vapor, warmth, etc.
  • (n.) The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath.
  • (n.) The power of respiration, and hence, life.
  • (n.) Time to breathe; respite; pause.
  • (n.) A single respiration, or the time of making it; a single act; an instant.
  • (n.) Fig.: That which gives or strengthens life.
  • (n.) A single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.
  • (n.) A very slight breeze; air in gentle motion.
  • (n.) Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
  • (n.) Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
  • (2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (3) Four showed bronchodilation after a deep breath, indicating that this response can occur after extrinsic pulmonary denervation in man.
  • (4) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
  • (5) We studied the effect of a 2-hour exposure to 0.6 ppm of ozone on bronchial reactivity in 8 healthy, nonsmoking subjects by measuring the increase in airway resistance (Raw) produced by inhalation of histamine diphosphate aerosol (1.6 per cent, 10 breaths).
  • (6) Base-line HPV was determined by measuring the change in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) while sheep breathed 12% O2 for 7 min.
  • (7) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (8) A relative net reduction of 47% in lactose malabsorption was produced by adding food, and the peak-rise in breath H2 was delayed by 2 hours.
  • (9) The most common patient complaint before starting therapy was shortness of breath.
  • (10) The patient and ventilator work ratios, and the work of breathing quantify factors which may be directly useful to the clinician and to future systems to automate weaning.
  • (11) Many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) receiving supplemental oxygen state that this treatment makes them less short of breath at rest.
  • (12) When the first recordings of each of infants who died of SIDS, except one who had cyanotic episodes prior to death, were compared to recordings of survivors (six for each case) closely matched for age, gestation, and weight at birth, no differences in breathing patterns or heart or respiratory rates during regular breathing could be demonstrated.
  • (13) The rabbits were either breathing spontaneously or were ventilated by a phrenic nerve-controlled servorespirator without the use of muscle relaxants.
  • (14) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
  • (15) For these augmented breaths, tidal volume, inspiratory time, and expiratory time were not different from the next augmented breath occurring in the same run in the steady state.
  • (16) Eight men and eight women each performed peak oxygen intake tests on a cycle ergometer breathing ambient air and a mixture of 12% oxygen in nitrogen (equivalent to an altitude of 4400 m) in the two experiments.
  • (17) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
  • (18) We conclude that: 1) the effective capillary PO2 in the fetal brain can be significantly reduced by increasing the distance between non-methemoglobin-laden erythrocytes in capillaries and 2) hypoxic inhibition of fetal breathing probably arises from discrete areas of the brain having a PO2 less than 3 Torr.
  • (19) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (20) No change in breathing frequency, minute ventilation, and pulmonary gas exchange was observed.

Expel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
  • (v. t.) To drive away from one's country; to banish.
  • (v. t.) To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.
  • (v. t.) To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.
  • (v. t.) To discharge; to shoot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Ayotzinapa school has long been an ally of community police in the nearby town of Tixtla, and Martinez said that, along with the teachers’ union and the students, it had formed a broad front to expel cartel extortionists from the area last year.
  • (2) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
  • (3) I gave her my personal opinion, which was that there would be no problem for her, but I was not able to give her the guarantee that I think she was entitled to deserve.” The peer reminded the House of Lords about the shock in Britain when Idi Amin expelled the Asians from Uganda.
  • (4) The Liberal Democrat investigation was carried out by Alistair Webster QC, who found it was not appropriate to charge Rennard with acting in a way that had brought the party into disrepute., which could have led to his expulsion expelled from the party.
  • (5) Our results showed that a lower percentage of normal subjects and a lower percentage of constipated patients were able to pass a 1.8 cm incompressible sphere compared with a 50 ml deformable balloon, although constipated patients found it more difficult than normal subjects to expel both types of simulated stool.
  • (6) Banding studies showed the presence of one 9qh in the mother and two 9qh chromosomes in the child, indicating that the triploidy arose from the failure to expel the second polar body.
  • (7) Detrusor pressure and fluid expelled by the bladder were recorded, synchronized, and digitized.
  • (8) Sensitized peritoneal exudate cells from Swiss albino mice donors infected with a single dose of 1000 A. caninum larvae could expel a challenge dose of 500 larvae from recipients at a faster rate when compared to cells from repeatedly infected (250 + 250 + 500) donors.
  • (9) At the same time, leaving the catheter in-situ until it is expelled spontaneously reduces the induction-abortion interval appreciably.
  • (10) The governing body expelled Legia on Friday morning after an investigation found that they were guilty of fielding an ineligible player in the second leg of the tie at Murrayfield on Wednesday night – as an 86th-minute substitute.
  • (11) Britain's high commissioner described him as "becoming ever more autocratic and intolerant of criticism" – and was expelled in retaliation .
  • (12) In the second phase nitric oxide, which is still bound to CuB after the first phase, is expelled from the complex by azide, with a concomitant electron transfer from CuB to cytochrome a.
  • (13) In the presence of sugars fermentable by E. coli alone or both E. coli and S. aureus, motile E. coli strains exerted a potent antagonistic effect and S. aureus was expelled from the culture vessel within a few days.
  • (14) Then Russia was expelled, the G8 became the G7 and is meeting in Brussels.
  • (15) This time, a relatively unknown Belgian group has pledged to “expel the Islamists” and police warn that extreme-right activists are believed to be converging on Molenbeek from around Europe, even though police banned the scheduled protest and any counter protests in the city as soon as it was announced, largely in reaction to the unrest last week.
  • (16) For the next few days, though, all eyes will be on whether Malema is suspended or expelled from the ANC.
  • (17) Half of the patients tested had difficulty in expelling a water filled balloon.
  • (18) David Cameron said he was still determined to expel Qatada.
  • (19) He was expelled from South East Essex college and also studied at Chiswick Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College, London.
  • (20) Overall, 68.0% of the patients failed to expel the placenta within one hour of abortion of the fetus.