EXHALATION
\ɛkshɐlˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɛkshɐlˈeɪʃən], \ɛ_k_s_h_ɐ_l_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXHALATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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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A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
By Oddity Software
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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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A bright phenomenon; a meteor.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Same etymon. (F.) A function, by virtue of which certain fluids, obtained from the blood, are spread, in the form of dew, in the areolae of the different textures, or at the surface of membranes; either for the sake of being thrown out of the body, or to serve certain purposes. The sweat is a liquid, excrementitious exhalation; the serous fluid of the pleura, a liquid recrementitious exhalation. Exhalation is, also, applied to that which exhales from any body whatever, organic or inorganic, dead or living.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The giving off of finely divided or vaporous substances, as of water and carbon dioxid, from the lungs, from the skin, etc.
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Expiration.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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