| 单词 | pressure breathing |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspressure breathing pressure breathing n. the breathing of air at a pressure slightly higher than that of the surrounding atmosphere (in high-altitude flying or as a therapeutic procedure; cf. positive pressure n. at positive adj. and n. Compounds); frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by gas, air, or fumes > [noun] > treatment introducing gas or air pneumothorax1885 preoxygenation1942 pressure breathing1946 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > method of supplying oxygen pressure breathing1946 1946 Science 27 Sept. 300/2 The introducer was devised to overcome this obstacle which becomes a serious one when dexterity is poor, as during a pressure-breathing experiment at altitude. 1952 A. Huxley Let. 20 May (1969) 644 I have had no return of my iritis and, thanks to the newly invented pressure-breathing treatment,..have practically eliminated the slight chronic bronchitis. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. lviii. 1365/2 When, as in the Valsalva maneuver, positive-pressure artificial ventilation, or pressure breathing once used in aviation,..the intrathoracic pressure exceeds the pressure inside the veins, the latter will collapse. 2002 T. G. O'Brien & D. Meister in S. G. Charlton & T. G. O'Brien Handbk. Human Testing & Evaluation (ed. 2) 13 Tests of..pressure breathing apparatus, and protective clothing for use at high altitudes. < as lemmas |
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