(n.) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration.
(n.) Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
(n.) The last emission of breath; death.
(n.) A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
(n.) That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(3) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
(4) The phenylalanine model allows the rapid assessment of whole body and muscle protein turnover from plasma samples alone, obviating the need for measurement of expired air CO2 production or enrichment.
(5) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(6) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
(7) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(8) As a result, it was stated that about a half of the preparations studied do not meet the requirements of USP XXI as for as the content of the active substance is concerned, which suggests that the expiration date is shorter by 6 to 12 months.
(9) Under cyclic uptake conditions alveolar gases follow an oscillating time course, because gas concentrations tend to increase during inspiration and to decrease during expiration.
(10) Radioactive CO2 was detected in expired air after the administration of 25-hydroxy-[26,27-14C] vitamin d3 to vitamin D-deficient hypocalcemic rats; 14co2 was also detected after the administration of 1,25-dihydroxy-[26,27-14C] vitamin D3 to rats raised on the same diet.
(11) Approximately 12% and 40% of radioactivity administered was excreted in the urine and feces respectively during the first 24 hours, however, the excretion of radioactivity by expiration was not determined.
(12) Twenty-two afferent fibers were activated during the three inspiratory efforts with occlusions applied at end-expiration, when the upper airway was subjected to negative pressure (-1.93, -2.16 and -2.22 kPa at the 1st, 2nd and 3rd effort, respectively).
(13) The relationship between mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and alveolar pressures, at varying tidal volumes and opposing variable pressure to expiratory flow, was studied in 14 healthy dogs at the end of inspiration and at the end of expiration.
(14) Arterial blood and expired gas samples were taken from 20 patients before operation and on the first day after upper abdominal surgery.
(15) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
(16) Maximal expiratory flow-volume (MEFV) curves similar to those obtained in most dogs and in some humans could be produced: a peak followed by a gently sloping plateau ending in a knee, where flow suddenly fell to a much smaller value approaching zero rather slowly over the last 25 to 50% of the expired vital capacity.
(17) As predicted by their static response, the activity of these receptors decreases during inspiration and increases during expiration and therefore it is out of phase with the discharge of the other airway stretch receptors.
(18) "Unless and until vulnerabilities are addressed effectively, and all people enjoy the opportunity to share in human development progress, development advances will be neither equitable nor sustainable," Clark said, noting that protection for vulnerable people should be included in the sustainable development goals, which will replace the millennium development goals when they expire next year.
(19) Expired gas was collected during exercise to measure oxygen consumption.
(20) Expired carbon dioxide (CO2), the most sensitive index, displayed an inverted U-shaped concentration-effect curve, which increased at 100 ppm (the TLV) and decreased at 4500 ppm toluene.
Obsolescence
Definition:
(n.) The state of becoming obsolete.
Example Sentences:
(1) He treats me to a 10-minute critique of global capitalism and inbuilt obsolescence and the iniquity of global labour markets.
(2) As a minimum, there must be a system to guard against incompetence through obsolescence of any of the practicing professionals.
(3) Following this procedure, seven of the 29 biopsies had focal segmented hyalinosis and 16 of the 29 had focal glomerular obsolescence.
(4) However, the matrix of obsolescent Alport glomeruli stained intensely for collagen V and collagen VI, while these collagen types were not prominent in obsolescent glomeruli of non-Alport diseases kidneys.
(5) This form of tubular change is quite different from the well-known atrophy of the proximal convoluted tubules belonging to obsolescent glomeruli in chronic glomerulonephritis.
(6) Planned obsolescence's running mate is Moore's law , which decrees that every two years the computing world doubles the amount of transistors on a computer chip and therefore the power of the computer.
(7) This is in part due to planned obsolescence – a devious ploy by manufacturers bolstered by marketing strategies to make us fall out of love with a product hastily.
(8) Implications for the obsolescence of parts of the literature of science are discussed, and the relevance of this analysis to Kuhn's work on scientific revolutions is briefly noted.
(9) In obsolescent glomeruli, anti-IV was not always detected although anti-V was constantly seen.
(10) The second thing you notice is that in the last decade or so, this warranted interceptions regime has been utterly wormholed, circumvented to the point of obsolescence.
(11) Percentage of obsolescent glomeruli and the degree of tubulointerstitial lesions, but not active glomerular lesions (crescents, necroses) predicted renal outcome.
(12) Thus the return-stroke muscle of the larval exopodites in which muscle fiber and motoneurons are identifiable permits study of the interaction between a neuron and its target muscle undergoing programmed obsolescence.
(13) Observation of serial sections showed that these epithelial cell clusters were derived from the distal convoluted tubules belonging to obsolescent glomeruli.
(14) In all eight biopsy specimens, we detected hyaline arterionephrosclerosis, focal glomerular obsolescence, and segmental, afibrillar thickening of glomerular basement membranes.
(15) Robots that can plant, fertilise, spray, weed, monitor, harvest, pack and transport crops will inhabit the countryside Such traditional, driven machines – even those adapted with GPS – are, however, already threatened with obsolescence.
(16) Other economic and operational benefits which result from the scheme are commercially disinterested advice on equipment obsolescence and replacement, and redistribution between the laboratories of old but useful equipment to meet specific needs of the service in the region.
(17) There was a positive correlation between an increase in renal cortical echoes and interstitial infiltration as well as with glomerular obsolescence, tubular atrophy, and vascular changes.
(18) Obsolescent Alport glomeruli, in which the capillary tuft had collapsed and few remaining cell nuclei were present, exhibited nearly complete loss of alpha 1(IV) and alpha 2(IV), like obsolescent glomeruli in non-Alport diseased kidneys.
(19) The patients were classified into three groups based on the histologic findings in their initial renal biopsies: Group I (n = 19) had a combination of global and segmental lesions; Group II (n = 8) had only globally sclerotic or obsolescent glomeruli; and Group III (n = 5) had only segmentally sclerosed glomeruli.
(20) 4) A European sharing economy In a packed tent outside the parliament, a film called The Light Bulb Conspiracy is showing, an investigative documentary about planned obsolescence – the engineering of products designed to fail in order to guarantee consumer demand.