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Hollow sounds made by the lungs and heard through a stethoscope placed on a person’s chest, used in diagnosis. The sounds heard through a stethoscope placed over the lungs during breathing. Normal breath sounds are soft and called vesicular, they may be increased or decreased in disease states. The sounds heard over the larger bronchi…

Difficulty in breathing enough air. Breathlessness, or dyspnoea, may be due to any condition which renders the blood deficient in oxygen, and which therefore produces excessive involuntary efforts to gain more air. Exercise is a natural cause, and acute anxiety may provoke breathlessness in otherwise healthy people. Deprivation of oxygen — for example, in a…

Referring to someone who finds it difficult to breathe enough air.  

The number of times a person breathes in and out in a specific period.  

A period when a young child stops breathing, usually because he or she is angry.  

To take air in and blow air out through the nose or mouth.  

Air which goes in and out of the body when you breathe. To stop breathing out, after having inhaled deeply. Air that is taken into and let out from the lungs through the nose or mouth; one inhalation and one exhalation. The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.  

A reduction of the size of the breast for cosmetic purposes. The surgical removal of skin, fat, and underlying tissue to make the breast smaller. Breast reduction is per¬ formed most often to solve the problems faced by women with very large, heavy breasts. The excessive weight can cause neck and back pain, skeletal deformities,…

The construction of a new breast for a woman who has had a breast removed because of cancer. A surgical procedure to create a new breast to replace one that has been removed, usually because of cancer. Breast reconstruction can be performed when the breast is removed in a mastectomy or at a later date.…

An instrument for taking milk from a breast. A device used to draw, or express, milk out of the breasts, as when a breastfeeding mother is going to be away from her baby for a few hours and wants to store some milk for the baby to have while she is away or on return.…