Respiratory
adjective
Related to breathing or the organs that help in breathing.
The doctor confirmed it was a respiratory infection.
Often appears as...
- respiratory infection
- respiratory system
Usage tips
Medical
adjective
Related to breathing or the organs that help in breathing.
The doctor confirmed it was a respiratory infection.
Often appears as...
- respiratory infection
- respiratory system
Usage tips
Medical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used mainly in medical or health-related discussions to describe issues involving the lungs and breathing.
The respiratory therapist specializes in helping patients with lung conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3System Specific
Refers specifically to the 'respiratory system,' the group of organs responsible for breathing.
Smoking can cause serious damage to your respiratory system.
Pro Tip 3/3Illness Related
Commonly used with 'infection' or 'illness' to talk about diseases affecting breathing.
The patient was diagnosed with a severe respiratory illness.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used mainly in medical or health-related discussions to describe issues involving the lungs and breathing.
The respiratory therapist specializes in helping patients with lung conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3System Specific
Refers specifically to the 'respiratory system,' the group of organs responsible for breathing.
Smoking can cause serious damage to your respiratory system.
Pro Tip 3/3Illness Related
Commonly used with 'infection' or 'illness' to talk about diseases affecting breathing.
The patient was diagnosed with a severe respiratory illness.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Context
Used mainly in medical or health-related discussions to describe issues involving the lungs and breathing.
The respiratory therapist specializes in helping patients with lung conditions.
Pro Tip 2/3System Specific
Refers specifically to the 'respiratory system,' the group of organs responsible for breathing.
Smoking can cause serious damage to your respiratory system.
Pro Tip 3/3Illness Related
Commonly used with 'infection' or 'illness' to talk about diseases affecting breathing.
The patient was diagnosed with a severe respiratory illness.
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At what moment are you...
This is the reason organisms can't be simply sparked back to life once they've already died. We can pump air into someone's lungs, but it won't do much good if the many other processes involved in the respiratory cycle are no longer functioning. Similarly, the electric shock from a defibrillator
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Turbulence: One of the...
and affects the world around us. And yet, turbulence is ubiquitous, springing up in virtually any system that has moving fluids. That includes the airflow in your respiratory tract. The blood moving through your arteries. And the coffee in your cup, as you stir it.
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Peter Saul: Let's talk...
I was called down to the ward to see him. His is the little hand. I was called down to the ward to see him by a respiratory physician. He said, "Look, there's a guy down here. He's got pneumonia, and he looks like he needs intensive care.
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How do ventilators work?...
But mechanical ventilators take over the process, getting oxygen into the body when the respiratory system cannot. These machines can bypass constricted airways, and deliver highly oxygenated air to help damaged lungs diffuse more oxygen.
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How we must respond to...
where we'd simulate what needed to be done. We hardly did anything, and so now here we have a respiratory virus that is, sadly, fulfilling some of the more negative predictions I made. Last month, you said that this might be the big one.
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Human Body 101 PIPE...
Systems come in The respiratory system is a group of passageways and organs that extracts life-giving oxygen from the air we breathe Air enters the body through nasal cavities travels down the throat and is then transported to the lung
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When is a pandemic over?
Consider this unfortunately familiar scenario. Several months ago a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infected humans for the first time. It then proliferated faster than public health measures could contain it.
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How an Indian Krait...
never wakes and few clues are left as to the reason many tribal people believe that snake coils up on the chest of the victim then sucks their breath away as simple as in a way accurate descriptions of respiratory failure
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How mRNA Medicine Will...
and respiratory syncytial virus, or all leading causes of hospitalization and death in the elderly. And we're hoping that this will then be an annual booster, that you will get, just like the flu vaccine.
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Good news about...
virus to a blood-borne virus to a respiratory virus which is our greatest fear and then when a Qualtrough contracted the disease and then we kill her off in the first frame of the movie
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At what moment are you...
This is the reason organisms can't be simply sparked back to life once they've already died. We can pump air into someone's lungs, but it won't do much good if the many other processes involved in the respiratory cycle are no longer functioning. Similarly, the electric shock from a defibrillator
Video examples
Turbulence: One of the...
and affects the world around us. And yet, turbulence is ubiquitous, springing up in virtually any system that has moving fluids. That includes the airflow in your respiratory tract. The blood moving through your arteries. And the coffee in your cup, as you stir it.
Video examples
Peter Saul: Let's talk...
I was called down to the ward to see him. His is the little hand. I was called down to the ward to see him by a respiratory physician. He said, "Look, there's a guy down here. He's got pneumonia, and he looks like he needs intensive care.
Video examples
How do ventilators work?...
But mechanical ventilators take over the process, getting oxygen into the body when the respiratory system cannot. These machines can bypass constricted airways, and deliver highly oxygenated air to help damaged lungs diffuse more oxygen.
Video examples
How we must respond to...
where we'd simulate what needed to be done. We hardly did anything, and so now here we have a respiratory virus that is, sadly, fulfilling some of the more negative predictions I made. Last month, you said that this might be the big one.
Video examples
Human Body 101 PIPE...
Systems come in The respiratory system is a group of passageways and organs that extracts life-giving oxygen from the air we breathe Air enters the body through nasal cavities travels down the throat and is then transported to the lung
Video examples
When is a pandemic over?
Consider this unfortunately familiar scenario. Several months ago a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infected humans for the first time. It then proliferated faster than public health measures could contain it.
Video examples
How an Indian Krait...
never wakes and few clues are left as to the reason many tribal people believe that snake coils up on the chest of the victim then sucks their breath away as simple as in a way accurate descriptions of respiratory failure
Video examples
How mRNA Medicine Will...
and respiratory syncytial virus, or all leading causes of hospitalization and death in the elderly. And we're hoping that this will then be an annual booster, that you will get, just like the flu vaccine.
Video examples
Good news about...
virus to a blood-borne virus to a respiratory virus which is our greatest fear and then when a Qualtrough contracted the disease and then we kill her off in the first frame of the movie
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Amber Valletta
American Model
Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More chemicals would poison our bodies. And more people would die prematurely from respiratory diseases and heart attacks.
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David Quammen
American Scientist
Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.
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Julian Castro
American Politician
We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.
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Norman Swan
Australian Journalist
You see, your nose is the respiratory front line. It's the warning beacon that invaders have overwhelmed your first response defenders.
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Jaggi Vasudev
Indian Author
Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.
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Charles Duhigg
American Journalist
Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Limiting Covid's impact requires us to think differently about confronting respiratory pathogens in the winter.
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Emmanuel Sanders
American Athlete
I can't put my family at risk. My son already has a respiratory problem. He has asthma.
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Alan Jay Lerner
American Dramatist
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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Allen Klein
American Author
Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.
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Amber Valletta
American Model
Without the EPA and the national pollution safeguards it enforces, more children would have asthma. Our water would be less safe. More chemicals would poison our bodies. And more people would die prematurely from respiratory diseases and heart attacks.
Quote examples
David Quammen
American Scientist
Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.
Quote examples
Julian Castro
American Politician
We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.
Quote examples
Norman Swan
Australian Journalist
You see, your nose is the respiratory front line. It's the warning beacon that invaders have overwhelmed your first response defenders.
Quote examples
Jaggi Vasudev
Indian Author
Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.
Quote examples
Charles Duhigg
American Journalist
Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
Limiting Covid's impact requires us to think differently about confronting respiratory pathogens in the winter.
Quote examples
Emmanuel Sanders
American Athlete
I can't put my family at risk. My son already has a respiratory problem. He has asthma.
Quote examples
Alan Jay Lerner
American Dramatist
Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
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Allen Klein
American Author
Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.
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