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- noun A German
surname , from GermanKüssmaul .
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If the patient truly was in severe metabolic acidosis as type I diabetics can be if they go into ketoacidosis she would have been demonstrating a type of breathing called Kussmaul breathing, which is characterized by rapid, deep, labored, sighing breaths familiar to anyone who has ever seen a bad case of ketoacidosis.
Low-carb diet takes one below the belt | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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If the patient truly was in severe metabolic acidosis as type I diabetics can be if they go into ketoacidosis she would have been demonstrating a type of breathing called Kussmaul breathing, which is characterized by rapid, deep, labored, sighing breaths familiar to anyone who has ever seen a bad case of ketoacidosis.
Michael R. Eades, M.D.: Low-carb diet takes one below the belt 2006
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We're this patient exhibiting Kussmaul breathing, I'm sure it would have been identified as such in the published case report.
Michael R. Eades, M.D.: Low-carb diet takes one below the belt 2006
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Thus for example in the scheme which Kussmaul gives on the mechanism of articulate language we must first of all distinguish a sort of cerebral diastaltic arc (representing the pure mechanism of the word), which is established in the first formation of the spoken language.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
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One must remember that in nature the spoken language is formed gradually; and it is already established in words when the superior psychic centres use these words in what Kussmaul calls dictorium, in the syntactical grammatical formation of language which is necessary to the expression of complex ideas; that is, in the language of the logical mind.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
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Kussmaul (d. 1902), in enlargement of the stomach, and for the examination of the stomach with a speculum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Faradization was employed by Karl Friedrich Canstatt in 1846, Duchenne, and later by Kussmaul
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Thus, Kisch [81] expresses the opinion that in many cases premature sexual development manifests itself in children by the enlargement of the breasts, and by the growth of the axillary and pubic hair, in the absence of the commencement of menstruation, Kussmaul also observed cases in which, in comparatively early girlhood, all the physical signs of puberty were present although menstruation had not yet begun.
The Sexual Life of the Child Albert Moll 1900
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Certain as this proposition is, it is not, however, supported by the reasons given for it by Kussmaul, viz., that one and the same object is variously expressed in various languages, and that a new animal or
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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(Kussmaul); and, in telling a story, put extra syllables into their utterance while they are thinking.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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