(v. i.) To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.
(v. i.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood.
(v. t.) To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire,, as air; to breathe.
(v. t.) To breathe out; to exhale.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(2) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
(3) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
(4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(5) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
(6) A relationship has been obtained experimentally to permit conversion of the counts to respirable mass concentrations.
(7) Studies with liver mitochondria prepared from lactating hexachlorophene-fed rats showed a 50-75% inhibition of respiration with succinate as substrate.
(8) and respirated with a pneumatic respiration pump and the parameters blood pressure, pH and blood gases (pO2, pCO2) were continuously recorded.
(9) The interactions of nitrous oxide with cytochrome c oxidase isolated from bovine heart muscle have been investigated in search of an explanation for the inhibition of mitochondrial respiration by the inhalation anesthetic.
(10) A sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in Neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees C to 45 degrees C, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees C was cyanide-insensitive.
(11) The degree of venous congestion in the lungs of patients with mitral stenosis varies with the phases of respiration.
(12) In this study, at first, the states of sleep and wakefulness in newborn infants (measured simultaneously by EEG, EOG, respiration and body movement) were compared with their heart rate patterns in rest, active, awake and unclassified phases.
(13) In this study we propose a method for the analysis of the relationship between heart rate changes and respiration as a possible diagnostic tool for cardiac autonomic damage.
(14) Respiration-related neurons were classified with respect to the correlation of their activity with the activity of the phrenic nerve: phase-bound inspiratory (I) and expiratory (E) neurones and phase-spanning expiratory-inspiratory and inspiratory-expiratory neurones were discriminated.
(15) Tests included recording the scalp EEG, visual and auditory cerebral evoked-potentials, the CNV, cerebral slow potentials related to certainty of response correctness in auditory discrimination tasks, heart rate, respiration and the galvanic skin response.
(16) The excited group had significantly lower pH, pCO2, and base excess values, but significantly higher pO2 values, rectal temperatures, and pulse and respiration rates.
(17) The experience of reflexotherapy of 86 patients showed its positive effect on the psychoemotional activities of patients with obesity, a rise of adaptation capabilities of the body under physical exercise, improved external respiration function, an increase in oxygen saturation of tissues, the stimulation of metabolism (by the basal metabolism findings) by way of increasing the secretion of hypophyseal tropic hormones, triiodothyronine and thyroxin, and potentiation of the time course of loss of body mass.
(18) Chemical control of respiration becomes less stable during the light stage of sleep, despite a reduction in chemoresponsiveness, due to a concomitant increase in "plant gain" (i.e., responsiveness of blood gases to ventilatory changes).
(19) It is supposed that the stimulating effect of lactate with NAD+ on the mitochondria respiration is not so much a result of the membrane-damaged action as a result of oxidation of lactate dehydrogenase reaction products: phosphorylative oxidation of pyruvate and nonconjugated oxidation of NADH.
(20) It is suggested that the presence of abnormal OORR in sleep apnea may reflect a basic defect in pontomedullary control of respiration during sleep.
Respite
Definition:
(n.) A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.
(n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay.
(n.) Temporary suspension of the execution of a capital offender; reprieve.
(n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.
(n.) To give or grant a respite to.
(n.) To delay or postpone; to put off.
(n.) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.
(n.) To relieve by a pause or interval of rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of potential complications that can develop for chronically ill geriatric patients, a hospital setting for respite can be a viable respite alternative.
(2) They must also instruct patients not to wear extended wear lenses longer than 7 days at a time and to allow for an overnight respite from lens wear after this period of use.
(3) Nursing implications suggested by this study relate to helping the caregivers in the early mobilization of their own informal resources for respite care and to assisting caregivers to deal with the emotional aspects of caregiving.
(4) The stomach must need some respite from the cold shock of missing relatively straightforward opportunities.
(5) At the time, it was a lone moment of respite for the Americans in what had become an unrelenting assault.
(6) To celebrate its eighth birthday, Twitter is offering each user a respite from @Jack, and the ability to go back in time and read their own first tweet.
(7) Practical and policy issues are raised regarding the desirability of investment in respite care.
(8) Total number of hospital days was equivalent for the respite group and community-based control patients and was fewer than that for the acute care group.
(9) Support to those providing informal care might also be facilitated through community support services such as respite care, household maintenance, psychological support to care-givers, support groups, informal networks within a community and consideration of unconventional support methods.
(10) However, Buddies does more than simply offer respite care or home help.
(11) This year's floods – the result of record rainfall from April to early July, and with little respite in sight – have been exacerbated by the very dry spring.
(12) Arab Iraqi notables would travel to Kurdistan for vacations, skiing and a respite from the chaos of war.
(13) This is a farewell message [from a doctor] whose fate along with that of his companions is death or arrest at any moment.” One resident said the airstrikes had subsided by Tuesday morning due to lower visibility and rain, offering a brief respite to civilians who were still on the move and seeking shelter in the rebel districts.
(14) She recounts her prolonged campaign to get respite care (which no one had told her she was entitled to), and later to get funding to send her son to a residential school.
(15) He added: "continued low interest rates and the start of a fall in inflation offer only limited respite.
(16) They will bear the brunt of the job cuts in the public sector and they will also be expected to make up for the disappearance of local social services such as respite and home care as local government implements the huge front-end-loaded cuts this government has demanded.
(17) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Curators: Institute of Architecture – Dorota Jedruch, Marta Karpinska, Dorota Lesniak-Rychlak, Michał Wisniewski A welcome respite from the barrage of information on display elsewhere, the Polish pavilion presents a stark marble tomb, looming in the centre of the bright white space like some gothic fantasy.
(18) A five-day ceasefire in Yemen is expected to begin on Tuesday, offering much-needed respite for civilians who have endured almost seven weeks of Saudi-led air strikes against Iranian-backed rebels.
(19) Sudden onset of confusion without obviously remediable cause and the need for respite care are indications for referral.
(20) Four wards accept acutely ill patients of both sexes, and a further five offer a mixture of rehabilitation and respite care.