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expiratory, a.|ɛkˈspaɪərətərɪ|
[f. Lat. type *ex(s)pīrātōrius, f. ex(s)pīrāre: see expire v. and -ory.]
Of or pertaining to the process of expiration.
1847in Craig. 1861T. Graham Pract. Med. 294 The expiratory [murmur] is..distinctly audible under the clavicles. 1866Huxley Phys. iv. (1872) 90 Whenever a violent expiratory effort is made, the walls of the abdomen are obviously flattened. 1878Foster Phys. ii. ii. §i. 263 They are in fact the chief expiratory muscles.
b. Gram. (Often spelt exspiratory.) In expiratory accent, a kind of accent consisting in variation of stress, as distinguished from that which consists in variation of pitch. |