overventilatev.
/ˌəʊvəˈvɛntᵻleɪt/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈvɛn(t)əˌleɪt/ Physiology and Medicine.
1. transitive. To cause overventilation of; to provide excessive artificial ventilation to. Cf. hyperventilate v. b.
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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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1917 J. S. Haldane Organism & Environment i. 13 The very rapid and shallow breathing of a dog in hot weather does not over-ventilate its lungs.
1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. lxiii. 1535/1 The major sources of danger are..(6) overventilating the alveoli, thus bringing about vasomotor depression and circulatory collapse.
2001 Emergency Med. 13 9 Chest compressions should proceed at regular normothermic rates and care should be taken to not overventilate the patient.
2. intransitive. To hyperventilate or overbreathe, esp. so as to cause hypocapnia and other physiological abnormalities.
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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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1928 Jrnl. Physiol. 64 Suppl. p. xxiv Nahun showed that there is a decrease in limb volume when a normal man over-ventilates.
1961 Jrnl. Physiol. 156 240 The subject was instructed to overventilate from a 100 l. Douglas bag containing 4% carbon dioxide in air.
2002 Aviation, Space, & Environmental Med. 73 404 Subjects voluntarily hyperventilating may overventilate and become disabled from severe hypocapnia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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