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US
/ɪkˈspaɪɹəˌtɔɹi/
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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the breathing out phase of respiration
How To Use expiratory In A Sentence
- In the primary goal of the trial, the drug showed an improvement in forced expiratory volume of 10.6% in those on the drug through 24 weeks and 10.5% through 48 weeks. Vertex Reports Success of Cystic Fibrosis Drug
- A small, inexpensive device that measures how fast air moves out of the child's lungs when a child exhales; it measures the peak expiratory flow (PEF) which is an indicator of airway size. Glossary
- Nitric oxide (NO) Containing in hu manis expiratory gas is the important messenger and effector in the organism.
- The expiratory ( F E ) and inspired ( F 1 ) concentration of isoflurane were monitored continuously.
- Early glottic closure is seen as an abrupt cessation of flow during expiration, visible as a sharp downslope on the expiratory flow volume curve.
- In response to a delay in the opening of the expiratory valve, 45 patients increased the duration of neural expiratory time.
- Dynamic lung volumes and expiratory flow were measured using incentive animation software.
- Expiratory stridor -- This occurs when your child breathes out and it indicates a problem further down the windpipe. Stridor (Noisy Breathing)
- The young man's doctor asked the young man's worried mom to measure his "peak expiratory flow" -- a measure of how well a person can exhale -- before and after he visited Facebook. Is that right? Facebook triggers asthma attacks?
- Handheld peak expiratory flowmeters have been widely used in the management of bronchial asthma, and as such are familiar to family physicians.