Definition of breathing
: either of the marks ʽ and ' used in writing Greek to indicate aspiration or its absence
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Nearly 60 babies in withdrawal had to be diverted to other hospitals, because there were infants with even more pressing needs, like life support or breathing assistance.
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With the supply of fresh air reduced, a small or vulnerable infant essentially stops breathing and suffocates.
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Turns out, Olympic-level swimmers are abnormally likely to have asthma, and Olin’s research helps train them to cope with attacks, and to even use their familiarity with controlled breathing as an advantage.
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This is supposed to create room and breathing space for some sort of political solution.
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The driver and lone occupant of the car was conscious and breathing but had suffered several gunshot wounds.
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Hyperbaric treatment, increasingly given to diabetics — many of them elderly with persistent wounds — involves breathing pure oxygen inside a pressurized air chamber typically for two hours each weekday, often for more than a month.
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JCPS: Board gives thumbs up to 'males of color academy' at Tuesday's meeting Trouble breathing:
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Sapphira, three weeks into prekindergarten at Oak Springs Elementary in Austin, Texas, was given oxygen and put on a breathing machine.
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First Known Use of breathing
1746
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