| expiratory resistance | Resistance to flow of gas out of the lungs or the total resistance to flow of gas during the expiratory phase of the respiratory cycle. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| expiratory stridor | A singing sound due to the semi-approximated vocal folds offering resistance to the escape of air. (05 Mar 2000) |
| expire | 1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; opposed to inspire. "Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air." (Harvey) "This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire." (Dryden) 2. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors. "The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter." (Bacon) 3. To emit; to give out. 4. To bring to a close; to terminate. "Expire the term Of a despised life." (Shak) Origin: L. Expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. Expirer. See Spirit. 1. To emit the breath. 2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony. 3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday. 4. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. "The ponderous ball expires." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| expired gas | Any gas that has been expired from the lungs; often used synonymously with mixed expired gas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| expiring | 1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating. 2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| expiscate | To fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out. "To expiscate principles." "Dr.Burton has with much ingenuity endeavord to expiscate the truth which may be involved in them." (W. L. Alexander) Origin: L. Expiscatus, p.p. Of expiscari to fish out; ex out+piscari to fish, piscis fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| expiscation | The act of expiscating; a fishing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| expiscatory | Tending to fish out; searching out Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| explain | 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. "The horse-chestnut is . . . Ready to explain its leaf." (Evelyn) 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible. "Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you." (Gay) To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away." Synonym: To expound, interpret, elucidate, clear up. Origin: L. Explandare to flatten, spread out, explain; ex out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. Esplaner, explaner. See Plain, and cf. Esplanade. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| explanate | <botany> Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form. Origin: L. Explanatus, p.p. Of explanare. See Explain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| explant | Living tissue transferred from an organism to an artificial medium for culture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| explantation | The act of transferring an explant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| explicit | 1. Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration. "The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt." (Bancroft) 2. Having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement. Explicit function. <mathematics> See Function. Synonym: Express, clear, plain, open, unreserved, unambiguous. Explicit, Express. Explicit denotes a setting forth in the plainest, language, so that the meaning can not be misunderstood; as, an explicit promise. Express is stronger than explicit: it adds force to clearness. An express promise or engagement is not only unambiguous, but stands out in bold relief, with the most binding hold on the conscience. An explicit statement; a clear and explicit notion; explicit direction; no words can be more explicit. An explicit command; an express prohibition. "An express declaration goes forcibly and directly to the point. An explicit declaration leaves nothing ambiguous." Origin: L. Explicitus; p.p. Of explicare to unfold: cf. F. Explicite. See Explicate, Exploit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| explode | 1. To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes. 2. To burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam. 3. To burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded. Origin: L. Explodere, explosum, to drive out, drive out a player by clapping; ex out+plaudere, plodere, to clap, strike, applaud: cf. OF. Exploder. See Plausible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| exploration | <medicine> The act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries; physical examination. ""An exploration of doctrine."" (Bp. Hall) Origin: L. Exploratio: cf. F. Exploration. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |