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Definition of Periodic breathing

1. Noun. Abnormal respiration in which periods of shallow and deep breathing alternate.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Periodic Breathing

Literary usage of Periodic breathing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Respiration by John Scott Haldane (1922)
"As already seen periodic breathing can easily be produced at ordinary ... As the barometric pressure is reduced the periodic breathing is produced more and ..."

2. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"periodic breathing In normal individuals the respirations are, as a rule, ... periodic breathing of the general type of Cheyne-Stokes respiration is to a ..."

3. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1918)
""the periodic breathing is produced by periodic occurrence and ... This explanation accounted satisfactorily for the periodic breathing observed by them on ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"periodic breathing In normal individuals the respirations are, as a rule, ... periodic breathing of the general type of Cheyne-Stokes respiration is to a ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1889)
"He is of opinion that periodic breathing only takes place when at least a part of the higher brain tracts has ceased to act and has lost its influence upon ..."

6. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"... and periodic breathing in Man.—Arrange for taking tracings of the respiratory movements from a fellow-student as in i. Let the subject of the experiment ..."

7. Functional Pathology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"periodic breathing In normal individuals the respirations arc, ... periodic breathing of the general type of Cheyne-Stokes respiration is to a certain ..."

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