(n.) One who breathes. Hence: (a) One who lives.(b) One who utters. (c) One who animates or inspires.
(n.) That which puts one out of breath, as violent exercise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Djokovic is grateful to hold to love, and the rest of us are happy for a breather too.
(2) From the initial 8 predominantly mouth breathers before treatment only 2 remained clinically unchanged.
(3) Oscillations occurred more frequently in periodic breathers, and hypercapnic responses were higher in subjects with oscillations than those without.
(4) As the crowd took a much-needed breather and the game entered its last 10 minutes, Santos finally made his first concession to circumspection, replacing Nani with an extra defensive anchor in Porto’s Danilo Pereira, knowing that a point would see his side through come what may.
(5) Comparisons of measured breathing modes and dentofacial characteristics revealed a weak tendency among mouth breathers toward a Class II skeletal pattern and retroclination of maxillary and mandibular incisors.
(6) Two of the wheels had broken off, and I was making painfully slow progress, needing to take a breather every five yards or so.
(7) The pressure-flow technique was used to estimate nasal airway size; inductive plethysmography was used to assess nasal-oral breathing in normal and impaired breathers.
(8) "These pesticides have been building up in our environment for a decade, so limited, temporary bans won't be enough to give bees a breather.
(9) At birth, the neonate is an obligate nasal breather and any compromise of the nasal passages is potentially life threatening.
(10) Many persisting abdominal breathers (pBA) at rest go to health spas 4-5 times or more at public expense in order to relieve their lower back pain.
(11) Using subcellular preparations of gills from Arapaima, an obligate air breather, and aruana, a related osteoglossid that is an obligate water breather, a comparison was made of the relative roles of the malate-aspartate cycle and the alpha-glycerophosphate (alpha-GP) cycle in transferring reducing equivalents from the cytosol to the mitochondria.
(12) Nine subjects were habitual nasal breathers both before and after topical anaesthesia with 4% lignocaine.
(13) In 1969, a screening of Paint Your Wagon wasn't complete without the chance to stop halfway, have a breather and ponder whether or not Lee Marvin would manage to tame Jean Seberg's headstrong ways come the second act.
(14) Based on this multidisciplinary judgment and confirmed by the rhinomanometric values two groups could be distinguished: a group of predominantly mouth breathers where the nasal airway resistance had an average decrease of 34% and a group of predominantly nasal breathers where the nasal airway resistance had an average decrease of less than 5%.
(15) As air breathers that are inseparably tied to the surface, cetaceans are highly trackable; they may thus help in the monitoring of habitat degradation and other long-term ecologic change.
(16) The visitors had been defending just before the interval when Stephen Ireland intercepted and fed Adam, the Scot meandering to the edge of the centre-circle inside his own half before pummelling a shot so optimistic it initially felt like a clearance into touch to grant his team-mates a breather.
(17) After a few hairy minutes, England get the breather they need and deserve for a superb first-half performance: controlled, mature and rousing.
(18) It was appropriate, perhaps, that the matchwinner was Laurent Koscielny, restored to the starting lineup after a much-needed breather.
(19) Taking a bit of a breather from writing her own songs, a couple of months ago Bettinson released a free EP of covers called, er, Covers, in which she tackled a song from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
(20) Although variability among subjects was demonstrated in the ratio of nasal respiration to total respiration, 25% of the "nasally-obstructed" patients were 100% nasal breathers and no patient had a nasal component less than 18% of total respiration.
Localized
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Localize
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(3) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(4) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(5) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(6) This scintigraphic localization of osteomyelitis seldom has been reported.
(7) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(8) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(9) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
(10) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(11) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
(12) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(13) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
(14) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(15) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
(16) Immunofluorescence analysis of Pr-28 antigen showed that the antigen was localized mainly in perinuclear cytoplasm.
(17) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(18) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(19) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(20) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.