Exhalation definition

ĕkshə-lāshən, ĕksə-
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The act of breathing out air. During exhalation, the diaphragm relaxes and moves upward, causing compression of the lungs and an outward flow of air.
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That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
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The act or an instance of exhaling.
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A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
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The act or an instance of exhaling.
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The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
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Something, such as air or vapor, that is exhaled.
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An exhaling or being exhaled; expiration or evaporation.
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Something exhaled, as air, steam, or an odor; emanation; effluvium.
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Something, such as air or vapor, that is exhaled.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
exhalation
Plural:
exhalations

Exhalation Sentence Examples

  • One of the constant features of respirationthe exhalation of carbon dioxide can still be observed.

  • His spirit was gone with that last exhalation; he needed no soul burial.

  • The entry of gases into, and exit from, the cells, as well as the actual exhalation of watery vapour from the latter, take place in the intercellular space system of which the stomata are the outlets.

  • It is marked by the constant and continuous absorption of a certain quantity of oxygen and bythe exhalation of a certain volume of carbon dioxide and water vapour.

  • After the disastrous defeat of Leipzig (r 7th-19th Dctober 1813), when French domination in Germany and Italy -vanished like an exhalation, the allies gave Napoleon another opportunity to come to terms. The overtures known as the Frankfcrt terms were ostensibly an answer to the request for information which Napoleon made at the field of Leipzig.

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