exhalatoryn.
/ɛksˈhalətəri//ɛɡˈzalətəri/ A passage or vent for exhalation (of gas).
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the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > action of being emitted or emitting > passage for emission of
exhalatory1813
gas pipe1816
vent-pipe1858
rocket jet1868
1813 Monthly Mag. 36 138 In Persia, there are several natural exhalatories of hydrogen gas.
Draft additions 1993
Chiefly Physiology. Relating to or employed in exhalation. Cf. expiratory adj.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > [adjective]
outbreathed1590
exhalatory1752
expired1794
expiratory1847
outbreathing1849
pluffing1853
1752 G. Randolph Enq. Medicinal Virtues Bath-water 50 Aqueous Liquors..if..taken in too great Quantities, chill the Body, and lessen the exhalatory Secretions.
1848 Hogg’s Weekly Instructor 1 68/1 The commissioners strenuously object to have any such exhalatory sources of disease in the city.
1881 J. Periam Amer. Encycl. Agric. 905/1 Plasters..are now only used by those who have never taken the trouble to understand the exhalatory function of the skin.
1970 Forma et Functio III. 92 Snapping turtles will, when snorkeling (breathing from a submerged position), cut off their exhalatory musculature almost completely.
1983 Biol. Abstr. 75 7224/2 Purring..generally is a regular sequence of pulse pairs, the structure of which differs between the inspiratory and exhalatory phases of articulation.
1986 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. vii. 9/1 He can..manufacture perfumes that create an exhalatory illusion, a phantom object lingering in the air.
2003 J. A. R. A. M. van Hooff & S. Preuschoft in F. B. M. de Waal & P. L. Tyack Animal Social Complexity x. 260 The salvos of expirations, given in a series of exhalatory barks, end in a state of deep expiration.
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