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Breath :: Breath (n.) The act of breathing naturally or freely; the power or capacity to breathe freely; as, I am out of breath..

Stuttering :: Stuttering (n.) The act of one who stutters; -- restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering..

Asper :: Asper (n.) The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus ws, pronounced h/s, rh`twr, pronounced hrat/r..

Orthopny :: Orthopny (n.) Specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing..

Roar :: Roar (v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2..

Spiroylic :: Spiroscope (n.) A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.

Croup :: Croup (n.) An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria..

Breathing :: Breathing (n.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below..

Inbreathing :: Inbreathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inbreath.

Asiphonate :: Asiphonate (a.) Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells.

The Gapes :: The gapes () A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm..

Spirit :: Spirit (n.) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself..

Inflatus :: Inflatus (v. t.) A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.

Tracheary :: Tracheary (a.) Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae.

Reptilia :: Reptilia (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds..

Trance :: Trance (n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible..

Dyspnoea :: Dyspnoea (n.) Difficulty of breathing.

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions..

Pupa :: Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

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