单词 | expiratory |
释义 | expiratoryadj. a. Of or pertaining to the process of expiration. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > [adjective] outbreathed1590 exhalatory1752 expired1794 expiratory1847 outbreathing1849 pluffing1853 1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. 1861 T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 294 The expiratory [murmur] is..distinctly audible under the clavicles. 1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (1872) iv. 90 Whenever a violent expiratory effort is made, the walls of the abdomen are obviously flattened. 1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) ii. ii. § i. 263 They are in fact the chief expiratory muscles. Categories » b. Grammar. (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. Draft additions June 2012 expiratory reserve volume n. Physiology the maximum amount of gas that can be expelled from the lungs by forceful exhalation following an ordinary exhalation. ΚΠ 1950 Federation Proc. (Federation Amer. Soc. Exper. Biol.) 9 603/1 The terms ‘complemental air’ and ‘supplemental air’ are replaced by ‘inspiratory reserve volume’ and ‘expiratory reserve volume’ which have functional meanings and are therefore more easily remembered. 2004 K. Premkumar Massage Connection (ed. 2) x. 555/2 The residual volume and the expiratory reserve volume together make up the functional residual capacity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1847 |
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