Which preposition to use with respiration
THE RESPIRATION OF FISHES is effected by means of those comb-like organs which are placed on each side of the neck, and which are called gills.
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When it is known that a person has been under water for but a few minutes continue the artificial respiration for at least one and a half to two hours before considering the case hopeless.
In the experiments made by Mr. John Hunter, to discover the use of this general diffusion of air through the bodies of birds, he found that it prevents their respiration from being stopped or interrupted by the rapidity of their motion through a resisting medium.
An adult makes, on an average, about 15 respirations per minute, and therefore he in every hour renders to the atmosphere of the room in which he is staying from 10 to 15 cubic feet of poisonous air.
The only difference in this respect is, that the whale can go longer without renewing his respiration than all purely land-animals, though he must come up to breathe at intervals, or die.
The air at the broad end of the egg is probably an organ serving the purpose of respiration to the young chick, some of whose vessels are spread upon it like a placenta, or permeate it.
I not only perform the perpetual act of respiration with less labour, but I can walk with fewer intervals of rest, and with greater freedom of motion.
On my way to bed I paused at Mr. Jaffrey's door, and in a lull of the storm, the measured respiration within told me that the old gentleman was sleeping peacefully.
Jasper lay there on his side, his head resting on the coal bottom, a long, convulsive respiration at intervals the only movement of his body.
The first and most important thing is to start artificial respiration without delay.
If necessary, use artificial respiration by the Sylvester method (sec. 380).
A metaphor piquant by its oddity: Je crois que j'ai laissé ma respiration en chemin.
Next morning there was little improvement; respirations over 80, and temperature 103.5°.