What's the difference between breathable and respirable?

Breathable


Definition:

  • (a.) Such as can be breathed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a horizon-scanning issue but the particles are of a size that they are [breathable], they are increasing in number in our environment and there is a question to be asked.” Kelly said the microplastics could enter the air after sewage sludge is spread on fields and dries out.
  • (2) These new wound care products were made possible by the convergence of three interrelated disciplines: (1) more complete understanding of the underlying principles of dermal wound healing processes, (2) new elastomeric polymers capable of being fabricated into protective dressings, and (3) advances in breathable adhesive technology.
  • (3) The breathable PEU film enabled coagulation of the wound exudate, preserving it into a semisolid gelatinous state.
  • (4) The breathability reduces the need for mechanical ventilation – cutting energy use.” Who will fund tomorrow’s big scientific breakthroughs?
  • (5) We spend a little more now, to recoup in the next few decades in the form of breathable air, drinkable water and an atmosphere that doesn't cook us.
  • (6) His latest project aims to commercialise a new kind of breathable leather grown out of a Petri dish without the environmental challenges of animals.
  • (7) The one graph that explains the (worrying) end of the mining boom | Greg Jericho Read more With China looking to restrict its overseas coal imports and curb its own emissions to ensure its citizens have breathable air, continued reliance on mineral exports may not be Australia’s best economic strategy.
  • (8) These data indicate that breathable rainwear is likely to have little effect on heat transfer, even though it allowed 89% of sweat to evaporate compared to 51% for the polyurethane raincoat.
  • (9) The pull-on hijab is made of light, stretchy fabric that includes tiny holes for breathability and an elongated back so it will not come untucked.
  • (10) Numerous other new "waterproof breathable" fabrics have recently come to the market.
  • (11) Robinson adds: “It’s breathable, preventing condensation and mould in the home, reducing diseases caused by damp housing like asthma.
  • (12) Caring for the sick, protecting children, ensuring we have breathable air and potable water, carrying out effective work for a fair charge – we are intended to find these things bizarre.
  • (13) Mushroom preserving bag Mushroom preserving bag We were much less keen on Lakeland's mushroom bag for £2.79 , a breathable polycotton bag with a "blackout layer" to restrict light.
  • (14) Bananas can now be stored in "vitamin-enhanced" polyethylene bags to slow the ripening process, while you can keep your potatoes and onions in breathable polycotton drawstring sacks.
  • (15) Subjective evaluations of perceived exertion, comfort, clothing breathability, temperature and perspiration also were obtained.
  • (16) Silently gliding towards the ocean, with failed oxygen masks and terrified passengers scrawling goodbye notes to loved ones, the 747 was saved only when the crew put it into a nosedive in a frantic search for breathable air.
  • (17) A self contained life support system which can maintain a breathable atmosphere for up to eight hours was recently developed for use with a portable hyperbaric tent.
  • (18) Particular attention is focused on the clinical applications of the newer, breathable dressing products, which approximate a temporary synthetic artificial skin.
  • (19) The breathability of the fabric was believed to be a benefit in decreasing skin irritation.

Respirable


Definition:

  • (a.) Suitable for being breathed; adapted for respiration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
  • (2) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
  • (3) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
  • (4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
  • (5) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
  • (6) A relationship has been obtained experimentally to permit conversion of the counts to respirable mass concentrations.
  • (7) Studies with liver mitochondria prepared from lactating hexachlorophene-fed rats showed a 50-75% inhibition of respiration with succinate as substrate.
  • (8) and respirated with a pneumatic respiration pump and the parameters blood pressure, pH and blood gases (pO2, pCO2) were continuously recorded.
  • (9) The interactions of nitrous oxide with cytochrome c oxidase isolated from bovine heart muscle have been investigated in search of an explanation for the inhibition of mitochondrial respiration by the inhalation anesthetic.
  • (10) A sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in Neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees C to 45 degrees C, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees C was cyanide-insensitive.
  • (11) The degree of venous congestion in the lungs of patients with mitral stenosis varies with the phases of respiration.
  • (12) In this study, at first, the states of sleep and wakefulness in newborn infants (measured simultaneously by EEG, EOG, respiration and body movement) were compared with their heart rate patterns in rest, active, awake and unclassified phases.
  • (13) In this study we propose a method for the analysis of the relationship between heart rate changes and respiration as a possible diagnostic tool for cardiac autonomic damage.
  • (14) Respiration-related neurons were classified with respect to the correlation of their activity with the activity of the phrenic nerve: phase-bound inspiratory (I) and expiratory (E) neurones and phase-spanning expiratory-inspiratory and inspiratory-expiratory neurones were discriminated.
  • (15) Tests included recording the scalp EEG, visual and auditory cerebral evoked-potentials, the CNV, cerebral slow potentials related to certainty of response correctness in auditory discrimination tasks, heart rate, respiration and the galvanic skin response.
  • (16) The excited group had significantly lower pH, pCO2, and base excess values, but significantly higher pO2 values, rectal temperatures, and pulse and respiration rates.
  • (17) The experience of reflexotherapy of 86 patients showed its positive effect on the psychoemotional activities of patients with obesity, a rise of adaptation capabilities of the body under physical exercise, improved external respiration function, an increase in oxygen saturation of tissues, the stimulation of metabolism (by the basal metabolism findings) by way of increasing the secretion of hypophyseal tropic hormones, triiodothyronine and thyroxin, and potentiation of the time course of loss of body mass.
  • (18) Chemical control of respiration becomes less stable during the light stage of sleep, despite a reduction in chemoresponsiveness, due to a concomitant increase in "plant gain" (i.e., responsiveness of blood gases to ventilatory changes).
  • (19) It is supposed that the stimulating effect of lactate with NAD+ on the mitochondria respiration is not so much a result of the membrane-damaged action as a result of oxidation of lactate dehydrogenase reaction products: phosphorylative oxidation of pyruvate and nonconjugated oxidation of NADH.
  • (20) It is suggested that the presence of abnormal OORR in sleep apnea may reflect a basic defect in pontomedullary control of respiration during sleep.

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