What's the difference between breath and rebreathe?

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.

Rebreathe


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To breathe again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A comparison was made between the Q's estimated by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming and previously published data on Q determined by the dye-dilution method during free swimming in a flune.
  • (2) From eleven to fourteen rebreathing experiments were done on each volunteer for each of the three exercises, with the treadmill started at carbon dioxide levels which ranged from 36 (below threshold) to 58 mmHg (above threshold).
  • (3) Forced rebreathings may recruit trapped gas into the mixing process.
  • (4) The effects of inducing inspiratory muscle fatigue on the subsequent breathing pattern were examined during resting unstimulated breathing and during CO2 rebreathing.
  • (5) The ventilatory sensitivity to CO2 obtained from a non-steady-state step-ramp CO2 challenge (analogous to the Read rebreathing method) was compared with the one of the steady-state method.
  • (6) Using a rebreathing technique, we found that previously fed mice had an apparent VCO that was 40% greater than that of mice that had been fasted before the study.
  • (7) After sleep deprivation, no significant changes in inspiratory minute ventilation or tidal volume occurred during room air breathing or CO2 rebreathing, but the breathing frequency during CO2 rebreathing increased significantly after sleep deprivation.
  • (8) Five anaesthetised dogs rebreathed at intervals with 300 ml of test gas.
  • (9) Simultaneous measurements of cardiac output by indocyanin green and freon 22 uptake during rebreathing were made.
  • (10) Eleven men were studied during room air breathing and CO2 rebreathing before sleep deprivation (control), after 1 night of sleep deprivation, and the day after sleep recovery.
  • (11) A rebreathing technique was utilized to assess changes in diffusing capacity (DCO), pulmonary capillary blood volume (Vc), pulmonary parenchymal tissue volume (Vt), and cardiac output (Qc), after infusion of 2 liters of 0.9% saline intravenously in 13-25 min in five healthy subjects.
  • (12) No effect of propranolol was demonstrated on either the ventilatory response to rebreathing CO2 in hyperoxia, or the response to progressive isocapnic hypoxia.
  • (13) A quality-control phantom is described which is capable of testing the performance of inhalation rebreathing systems for measurements of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF).
  • (14) We observed, that under controlled ventilation the expiration valve of the circle system "8 ISO" did not close and rebreathing occurred, as the spirometer run counterclockwise.
  • (15) A clinical case is presented which suggests that spontaneous respiration with the Bain circuit at low flow rates is associated with rebreathing.
  • (16) There was no significant difference between average and variance EMGdi parameters in their responses to rebreathing.
  • (17) Tidal volume (VT), inspiratory and total cycle duration (TI, TT), occlusion pressure (P0.1) and endtidal PCO2 were measured at rest and during hyperoxic CO2 rebreathing.
  • (18) Several modifications of the Bain system for nitrous oxide analgesia or general anesthesia were tested for rebreathing and retention of CO2.
  • (19) The second method, based on partial rebreathing by means of adding an additional dead space of 220 ml for 30-45 s, correlated very well with the thermodilution findings.
  • (20) Exchange of CO2 takes place between lungs and rebreathing bag, and the concentration of CO2 is continuously monitored by a mass spectrometer.

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