(n.) The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
(n.) That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
(n.) A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The volume of exhaled gas, during three- to five-minute collection periods, was measured and the fraction of exhaled CO2 was determined by a CO2 meter.
(3) Such an 'inert tube' model may be adequate to describe the inhalation and exhalation kinetics of inert vapours, for example non-polar solvents which have a low water solubility.
(4) Response requirements are manual rather than verbal so that, in addition to monitoring heart rate, subjects' exhaled air may be collected throughout the task in order to determine oxygen consumption.
(5) Offspring of marmosets reached adult values of 14CO2 exhalation at 8 days postnatally when using [14CO2]-methacetin as substrate and at 30 days postnatally using [14C2H5]-phenacetin in the breath test.
(6) After a breath-hold of 30-90 s they exhaled and then breathed spontaneously the same anaesthetic mixture for up to 2 min.
(7) We propose a metabolic scheme in which the major pathway for metabolism of 1-CP is to CO2 (which is exhaled) and to cysteine conjugates and mercapturic acids that are excreted in the urine.
(8) Photograph: Manuel Vazquez for the Guardian One of the most insistent voices arguing against e-cigarettes has been the World Health Organisation, which has called for a ban on vaping indoors, citing evidence that “suggests exhaled e-cigarette aerosol increases the background air level of some toxicants, nicotine and particles”.
(9) Diphasicity of the exhalation curve was not present in these patients.
(10) Insignificant 14C was detected by carcass analysis following cessation of exhaled 14CO2.
(11) "Traumatised critics exhale: I'm unable to do the Oscars again," he wrote .
(12) A Fisher and Paykel anesthetic humidifier was employed in the exhalation side of Jackson Rees type breathing circuit between the anesthesia machine and patient's endotracheal tube.
(13) Pulmonary distribution of [99Tcm) albumin radioaerosol, maximal expiratory flow when 25% of forced vital capacity remain to be exhaled (MEF25), and bronchial responsiveness to inhaled histamine were measured.
(14) Acidic rinsing resulted in an immediate 90% reduction in exhaled ammonia in all subjects, and a return to 50% of baseline levels occurred within 1 h. Depletion that resulted from tooth brushing or distilled water alone was not significant.
(15) These samples were collected from atmospheres of either analyte generated at 35 degrees-40 degrees C and 80%-90% relative humidity to simulate an exhaled breath sample matrix.
(16) The 8 patients who developed diarrhea (33%) had significantly elevated hydrogen exhalation in relationship to the patients with no diarrhea.
(17) Rectal temperature, PaO2, PaCO2, respiratory rate, exhaled minute ventilation (VE), tidal volume (VT), and blood pressure and pulse were measured.
(18) Approximately 12% of the administered radioactivity is exhaled as 11CO2 during the first 30 min.
(19) The results during wakefulness indicate that the TA contributes to an active adduction of the vocal cords in expiration and suggest the presence of an active laryngeal braking mechanism during exhalation.
(20) The correlation between exposure to THF and its concentration in exhaled breath and blood was low (r = 0.61 and 0.68 respectively).
Meteor
Definition:
(n.) Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.
(n.) Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 64-year-old female patient was admitted to our department for fatigue, pain in the right upper abdomen, obstipation, and meteorism.
(2) He promised to unite a divided and fractured France, saying: “I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.” Speaking of his meteoric rise and victory that was not forecast even a year ago, he said: “Everyone said it was impossible.
(3) The results were evident in the "hip-hop ballet" class in a new dance studio, and a mural of a meteor containing a dove about to hit a forest struck by lightning, suggesting that somewhere a heavy metal band is missing an album cover.
(4) The product of energy flux and efficiency implies the unexpected conclusion that shocks occurring on atmospheric entry of cometary meteors and micrometeorites and from thunder may have been the principal energy sources for pre-biological organic synthesis on the primitive earth.
(5) In the past this column has highlighted the social impact the meteoric rise in buy-to-let has had on “generation rent”, now locked out of the property market.
(6) Right subcostal pain, meteorism, and nausea due to faulty diet showed a slight difference in favour of the laparoscopic method when compared to traditional surgery.
(7) Her meteoric rise as a teenage sensation was slowed immediately after she reached the world No1 ranking in 2006 with what became a long series of shoulder issues.
(8) While his meteoric rise to fame may not be as remarkable as the Mars landing itself, it prompts the question: what is it about Bobak Ferdowsi that turned him into a meme?
(9) Extensive toxicological examinations revealed with high doses all typical symptoms of overdosing an anticholinergic drug, like mydriasis, dryness of the mucosae and meteorism with coprostasis.
(10) Emboldened by its meteoric rise in Greece, the far-right Golden Dawn party is spreading its tentacles abroad, amid fears it is acting on its pledge to "create cells in every corner of the world".
(11) After inoculation of roots, followed by constant conditions of incubation of the Meteor and Jupiter cultivars having their origin at the Plant-breeding Station at Luzany u Prestic, the isolates caused various symptoms of disease, each isolate showed a different degree of pathogenity.
(12) Some in the fibre yoghurt group experienced meteorism and loose stools.
(13) Based on Domscheit-Berg's own book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, it's being tipped as a celluloid document of Assange's meteoric rise into the public consciousness.
(14) Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies trace the meteoric rise of Cromwell from the lowly son of a blacksmith to a ruthless political leader.
(15) The impacts release profound amounts of energy: the meteor that tore into the sky over Chelyabinsk in Russia this year arrived at more than 18 kilometres per second and exploded with 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb.
(16) Ron Pernick, managing director of Clean Edge and a report author, called the economic giant's "meteoric" surge "very striking."
(17) In addition to mechanical problems with the jejunal catheter abdominal complications arose during enteral alimentation (meteorism, distension), leading to discontinuation in one-third of cases.
(18) However, several aspects of the pathogenesis of the individual symptoms of IBS are well known: 1) chronic constipation is most likely due to fibre-depleted diet, psychological factors, local organic disorders (e.g., anal fissures, hemorrhoids, diverticulosis) and disturbance of the body fluid balance (e.g., high consumption of diuretic compounds such as coffee and tea); 2) pain is related to spasms and motility disturbances causing increased intraluminal pressure; 3) meteorism is not due to an increased amount of intestinal gas, but "air traps" and segmental accumulation of gas seem to occur.
(19) The breakdown of the carbohydrates by the colonic bacterial flora can cause intestinal symptoms, such as meteorism, abdominal pain and diarrhoea.
(20) Subjective complaints were improved in both treatment groups except for nausea and meteorism that improved more in the CBS treated patients.