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hyperventilate, v. Physiol.|haɪpəˈvɛntɪleɪt|
[f. hyper- 5 + ventilate v., or back-formation from next.]
a. intr. To breathe deeply or rapidly.
1931Jrnl. Neurol. & Psychopath. XII. 14 It is..of much interest to ascertain to which changes the epileptic organism reacts with a seizure when the patient hyperventilates. 1961Flight LXXX. 760/1 An experienced pilot who had..been told..that he hyperventilated and should regulate his breathing. 1968Everybody's (Austral.) 12 June 31/4 Ron Taylor, perhaps Australia's greatest underwater expert, advises: Don't hyperventilate to the stage where you become dizzy. 1970Sci. Amer. Feb. 56/1 They do not need to hyperventilate as much as lowlanders do when the latter go to high altitudes.
b. trans. To produce hyperventilation in.
1931Jrnl. Neurol. & Psychopath. XII. 15 Our method has been..to hyperventilate the person in question with two or three of the methods. 1953Physiol. Rev. XXXIII. 447 Brown et al... hyperventilated subjects for 24 hours in a body respirator at rates just under those producing tetany. 1968C. Osborne tr. Stenuit's Dolphin vii. 119 When a..skin-diver hyperventilates his lungs by deep breathing.., he loads the haemoglobin of his blood with a reserve of oxygen. |