(n.) Respiration; the act of inhaling and exhaling air.
(n.) Air in gentle motion.
(n.) Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration; as, the breathings of the Spirit.
(n.) Aspiration; secret prayer.
(n.) Exercising; promotion of respiration.
(n.) Utterance; communication or publicity by words.
(n.) Breathing place; vent.
(n.) Stop; pause; delay.
(n.) Also, in a wider sense, the sound caused by the friction of the outgoing breath in the throat, mouth, etc., when the glottis is wide open; aspiration; the sound expressed by the letter h.
(n.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below.
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.
Insufflation
Definition:
(n.) The act of breathing on or into anything
(n.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life.
(n.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
(2) Demographic, hemodynamic, arterial blood gas, and ventilatory data were collected before peritoneal insufflation and at intervals during surgery.
(3) Cardiovascular disturbances and hypoxia can occur in conjunction with CO2 insufflation and can be avoided by monitoring the endexpiratory CO2 concentrations by infrared absorption spectrometry.
(4) A critical aspect in the use of the laryngeal mask is the fact that there is no complete isolation of the trachea and, therefore, an insufflation of the stomach or aspiration could occur, especially during critical situations (e.g.
(5) Insufflations from RV were necessary to produce the gas trapping.
(6) Venous PCO2 was increased by insufflating the gut with high CO2 while recording changes in the amplitude of the sternal movements.
(7) During constant volume of ventilation, mean arterial co2 tension rose approximately 5 torr following insufflation of the peritoneal cavity with carbon dioxide.
(8) With PEEP and left atrial balloon insufflation, central venous and pulmonary arterial pressure were increased approximately threefold (P less than 0.05).
(9) These results demonstrate the value of a rapid insufflation in order to give longer expiration time per minute for the benefit of the venous return and cardiac output.
(10) doses of 0.2 and 2 micrograms capsaicin induced bradycardia, hypertension and salivation but no change in insufflation pressure.
(11) A sham group of six sheep was insufflated with air instead of smoke.
(12) At a later date peritoneoscopy was planned and gas insufflated into the abdominal cavity in the usual manner; the patient did not complain about anything particular during peritoneoscopy.
(13) The effect on alveolar oxygen fraction (FAO2) of insufflating oxygen under a mask (or through an inflow nipple provided in the mask) during simulated mouth-to-mask ventilation was investigated using a lung model.
(14) Forty-nine cases of gastroduodenal perforation were subjected to new air insufflation test.
(15) A second zone, close to the insufflated jet of O2, uses convective streaming to produce greater gas mixing at higher flows.
(16) Increases in pulmonary arterial pressure, tracheal insufflation pressure, and blood levels of the prostaglandin F2alpha metabolite, 15-keto-13, 14-dihydro F2alpha, were observed after protamine chloride or thrombin-induced platelet aggregation and release reaction in dogs.
(17) Uterine distention was achieved with D5W in 270 patients, with dextran 32% in 30 patients, and with CO2 gas insufflation in 20 patients.
(18) This study compares gas exchange and hemodynamic parameters during bronchial insufflation with two different internal diameter (ID) catheters (2.5 and 1.4 mm) at a constant mean gas exit velocity.
(19) In conclusion, the increase in the respiratory insufflation pressure, caused by stimulation of noncholinergic nerves, seemed to be controlled by inhibitory alpha-2-adrenoceptors in guinea pig airways.
(20) In half 25 mg surfactant was insufflated through the endotracheal tube; it could be detected in tracheal secretions for at least the next 24 h. There was no significant difference in ventilator pressures or oxygen therapy used nor in neonatal mortality and morbidity in the first 2 years of life between the surfactant-treated and control groups in either trial.