(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.
Spatially
Definition:
(adv.) As regards space.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(2) A Monte Carlo simulation was performed to characterize the spatial and energy distribution of bremsstrahlung radiation from beta point sources important to radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
(3) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(4) Mice with mutations in four nonreceptor tyrosine kinase genes, fyn, src, yes, and abl, were used to study the role of these kinases in long-term potentiation (LTP) and in the relation of LTP to spatial learning and memory.
(5) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
(6) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(7) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
(8) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(9) Several types of neurons were differentiated on the basis of a study of neuronal activity in various parts of the cortex near the sulcus principalis during the execution of spatial delayed reactions by monkeys.
(10) At high luminances, the temporal, but not spatial, properties of this mechanism break down in a manner which had not been studied.Low-frequency inhibitory processThis process is manifest as a decrease in sensitivity from that of the simple excitatory process.
(11) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.
(12) In the longitudinal direction, however, spatial resolution of under slice thickness could not be obtained.
(13) These activities define both the polarity of the anterior-posterior (AP) axis and the spatial domains of expression of the zygotic gap genes, which in turn control the subsequent steps in segmentation.
(14) The different distribution and release of initiating enzymes for all these radical processes ensures the spatial and temporal control of their reactions.
(15) Proposed guidelines for future research include the use of conceptual rather than operational definitions of visual spatial ability, greater attention directed at separating spatial from nonspatial task components, and studies examining basic mechanisms underlying spatial vision.
(16) By modifying the spatial distribution of afferents to the network, we demonstrate that the same basic model functions properly in spite of afferents with nonuniform background firing rates.
(17) In the QHCl-sucrose condition components separated by the tongue's midline and those spatially mixed produced equal amounts of bitterness suppression.
(18) 7 right-handed male university students stood behind a large Plexiglas screen and spatially matched a ball projected over a distance of 20 feet.
(19) Models incorporating linear spatial-frequency- and orientation-selective channels explain many aspects of visual texture segregation.
(20) Colon and rectum, leukemia, and breast cancers were found to have very high positive spatial autocorrelation and high correlation with population density--a result contrary to previous findings in the West.