Definition of breathing

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

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Inspire :: Inspire (v. t.) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire.
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..
Laryngotracheotomy :: Laryngotracheotomy (n.) The operation of cutting into the larynx and the upper part of the trachea, -- a frequent operation for obstruction to breathing..
Breathing :: Breathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breath.
Limax :: Limax (n.) A genus of airbreathing mollusks, including the common garden slugs. They have a small rudimentary shell. The breathing pore is on the right side of the neck. Several species are troublesome in gardens. See Slug..
Insect :: Insect (n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion..
Pulmonate :: Pulmonate (a.) Having breathing organs that act as lungs.
Snail :: Snail (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail..
Eupnaea :: Eupnaea (n.) Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnaea, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized..
Heaves :: Heaves (n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind..
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..
Roar :: Roar (v. i.) To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See Roaring, 2..
Vesicular :: Vesicular (a.) Of or pertaining to vesicles; esp., of or pertaining to the air vesicles, or air cells, of the lungs; as, vesicular breathing, or normal breathing, in which the air enters freely the air vesicles of the lungs..
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) A mark to indicate aspiration or its absence. See Rough breathing, Smooth breathing, below..
Prosopulmonata :: Prosopulmonata (n. pl.) A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail..
Tracheary :: Tracheary (a.) Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae.
Atonic :: Atonic (n.) An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing..
Expiration :: Expiration (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..
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Breathing place; vent.
Groan :: Groan (v. i.) To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan..
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