| agonal | Relating to the process of dying or the moment of death, so called because of the former erroneous notion that dying is a painful process. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| agonal clot | Intravascular thrombosis ascribed to the process of dying. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal infection | An acute infection, commonly pneumonic or septic, occurring toward the end of any disease and often the cause of death. Synonym: agonal infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal leukocytosis | One that occurs in a person just prior to death, especially in one who has a "slow death." Synonym: agonal leukocytosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal rhythm | An idioventricular rhythm, characterised by unusually wide and bizarre ventricular complexes, often seen in moribund patients. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal thrombus | A heart clot formed during the act of dying after prolonged heart failure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abdominal respiration | Breathing effected mainly by the action of the diaphragm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aerobic respiration | A form of respiration in which molecular oxygen is consumed and carbon dioxide and water are produced. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amphoric respiration | A sound like that made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle, heard on auscultation in some cases in which a large pulmonary cavity exists, or occasionally in pneumothorax. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anaerobic respiration | Respiration under anaerobic conditions. The terminal electron acceptor, instead of oxygen in the case of regular respiration, can be: carbon dioxide, Fe2+, fumarate, nitrate, nitrite, nitrous oxide, sulphur, sulphate, etc. Note that anaerobic respiration still uses the electron transport chain to dump the electron while fermentation does not. (09 Oct 1997) |
| artificial respiration | Application of mechanically or manually generated pressures, usually positive, to gas(es) in or about the airway as a means of producing gas exchange between the lungs and surrounding atmosphere. Synonym: artificial respiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assisted respiration | Application of mechanically or manually generated positive pressure to gas(es) in or about the airway during inhalation as a means of augmenting movement of gases into the lungs. Synonym: assisted respiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Biot's respiration | Completely irregular breathing pattern, with continually variable rate and depth of breathing; results from lesions in the respiratory centres in the brainstem, extending from the dorsomedial medulla caudally to the obex. Synonym: ataxic breathing, Biot's breathing, respiratory ataxia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bronchial respiration | A tubular blowing sound caused by the passage of air through a bronchus in an area of consolidated lung tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bronchovesicular respiration | Combined bronchial and vesicular respiration. (05 Mar 2000) |