hyperventilatev.
/hʌɪpəˈvɛntɪleɪt/ Physiology.
a. intransitive. To breathe deeply or rapidly.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (intransitive)] > have deep breathing
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1931 Jrnl. Neurol. & Psychopathol. 12 14 It is..of much interest to ascertain to which changes the epileptic organism reacts with a seizure when the patient hyperventilates.
1961 Flight 80 760/1 An experienced pilot who had..been told..that he hyperventilated and should regulate his breathing.
1968 Everybody'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.
1970 Sci. Amer. Feb. 56/1 They do not need to hyperventilate as much as lowlanders do when the latter go to high altitudes.
b. transitive. To produce hyperventilation in.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > have or cause breathing disorder [verb (transitive)] > cause deep breathing
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1931 Jrnl. Neurol. & Psychopathol. 12 15 Our method has been..to hyperventilate the person in question with two or three of the methods.
1953 Physiol. Rev. XXXIII. 447 Brown et al... hyperventilated subjects for 24 hours in a body respirator at rates just under those producing tetany.
1968 C. Osborne tr. R. Stenuit 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.
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