| PB | British pharmacopeia [Pharmacopoeia Britannica]; paraffin bath; Paul-Bunnell [antibody]; periodic br... |
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| AMI | Acute Myocardial Infarction - Complications(Cx) 1. Early ... |
| CPC | central posterior curve; cerebellar Purkinje cell; cerebral palsy clinic; cerebral performance categ... |
| CPOTHA | chest pain onset to hospital arrival |
| CPP | cancer proneness phenotype; canine pancreatic polypeptide; cerebral perfusion pressure; chest pain p... |
mouth to mask breathing
| mouth breathing | Abnormal breathing through the mouth, usually associated with obstructive disorders of the nasal passages. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| work of breathing | Respiratory muscle contraction during inspiration. The work is accomplished in three phases: that required to expand the lungs against its elastic forces (lung compliance work), that required to overcome the viscosity of the lung and chest wall structures (tissue resistance work), and that required to overcome airway resistance during the movement of air into the lungs (airway resistance work). Work of breaking does not refer to expiration, which is entirely a passive process caused by elastic recoil of the lung and chest cage. (guyton, textbook of medical physiology, 8th ed, p406) (12 Dec 1998) |
| continuous positive pressure breathing | Artificial ventilation in which all inspirations are provided by positive pressure applied to the airway. Synonym: continuous positive pressure breathing, continuous positive pressure ventilation, intermittent positive pressure breathing, intermittent positive pressure ventilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| positive-negative pressure breathing | Inflation of the lungs with positive pressure and deflation with negative pressure by an automatic ventilator. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pursed lips breathing | A technique in which air is inhaled slowly through the nose and mouth and exhaled slowly through pursed lips; used by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to improve their breathing by increasing resistance to air flow, forcibly dilating small bronchi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shallow breathing | A type of breathing with abnormally low tidal volume. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stertorous breathing | Harsh, noisy breathing usually heard in an comatous patient. Synonym: stertorous breathing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermittent positive-pressure breathing | Application of positive pressure to the inspiratory phase of spontaneous respiration. See: controlled mechanical ventilation (12 Dec 1998) |
| kussmaul breathing | Air hunger. (12 Dec 1998) |
| alar chest | A chest in which the anteroposterior diameter is shorter than the average. Synonym: alar chest, pterygoid chest. (05 Mar 2000) |
| barrel chest | A chest permanently resembling the shape of a barrel, i.e., with increased anteroposterior diameter, roughly equaling the lateral diameter; usually with some degree of kyphosis; seen in cases of emphysema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gallium uptake with normal chest film | <radiology> Pulmonary drug toxicity, tumour infiltration, sarcoidosis, pneumocystis carinii see: lung: gallium imaging (12 Dec 1998) |
| mass chest X-ray | X-ray screening of large groups of persons for diseases of the lung and heart by means of radiography of the chest. (12 Dec 1998) |
| regions of chest | The topographic divisions of the chest: presternal, mammary, inframammary, and axillary. See: pectoral region. Synonym: regiones pectorales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chest | The anterior wall of the chest or thorax; the breast. See: thorax. Synonym: pectus, phthinoid. Origin: A.S. Cest, a box (05 Mar 2000) |