Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or used for the drawing in of air.
- adjective Intended or used to motivate or inspire.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to inspiration or inhalation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or aiding, inspiration.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
inspiration (in all senses)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to the drawing in phase of respiration
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Examples
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LifeLab Innovations has a number of respiratory products in its development pipeline and Professor McConnell was also the creator of the POWERbreathe® inspiratory muscle trainer.
Study finds even low levels of air pollution can impair lung function in healthy cyclists Thatsnews 2008
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LifeLab Innovations has a number of respiratory products in its development pipeline and Professor McConnell was also the creator of the POWERbreathe® inspiratory muscle trainer.
Archive 2008-09-01 Thatsnews 2008
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Portable chest X-ray, good inspiratory effort, the lungs are unremarkable with no infiltrates, effusion, or evidence of pneumothorax.
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Portable chest X-ray, good inspiratory effort, the lungs are unremarkable with no infiltrates, effusion, or evidence of pneumothorax.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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This is the reason why nature has brought the two nostrils together and placed them as the central of the three sense-organs, setting them side by side on a level with each other, to avail themselves of the inspiratory motion.
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The two Heymans were thus able to demonstrate that expansion of the lungs stopped the respiratory movements of the head in the expiratory position, which was indicated by the recording of laryngeal and alae nasi movements, while collapse of the lungs immediately induced inspiratory-type respiration in the head.
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Free comminution and absolute solution of continuity were also less common than in the fractures accompanying transverse wounds; hence pain from rubbing of the fragments on inspiratory movement or palpation was more common, and crepitus, either on auscultation or palpation, was more often met with.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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For when a solution of continuity occurs in the lungs, the inspiratory and expiratory forces fail.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Fortunately in all save the rarest possible instances the apnoea yields and a deep inspiratory movement follows.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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The tender salient angle, or, in the absence of this, a highly tender localised spot, often pointed to the less severe injuries, and when the fractures were complete or multiple, pain was a very prominent symptom, both constant and in the form of inspiratory stitch.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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