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rebreathe, v.|riːˈbriːð| [re- 5 a.] trans. To breathe (air) again. Hence reˈbreathed ppl. a.; reˈbreathing vbl. n. (freq. attrib.).
1606Heywood Challenge for Beauty iv. i, Have hope to bee redeemd;..Hope to re-breathe that ayre you tasted first. c1865J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 427/1 He must..re-breathe these..exhalations. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 310 The consequence is that patients have to inhale rebreathed air. 1897W. Marcet Contrib. Hist. Respiration in Man 109 Curves were taken showing the effects produced by the rebreathing of six litres of air during two minutes. 1935Sun (Baltimore) 17 May 5/2 Their faces are covered with four layers of gauze, muffling nose, mouth, eyes and ears. One purpose of the gauze is to increase slightly the rebreathing of exhaled carbon dioxide. 1960Brit. Jrnl. Anaesthesia XXXII. 256 (heading) A rebreathing technique for the determination of arterial Pco2 in the apnoeic patient. 1976H. MacInnes Death Reel xxiii. 184 He was pulled in..by a diver using re-breathing apparatus. |