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- Dictionaryexhalation/ˌɛks(h)əˈleɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the process or action of exhaling: "the gas produced at the end of exhalation from deep within the lung"
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Exhalation (or expiration) is the flow of the respiratory current out of the organism. In humans it is the movement of air out of the bronchial tubes, through the airways, to the external environment during breathing.
What Is Exhalation? It is the act of exhaling air taken in and is passive. Here, the diaphragm relaxes, moving upwards into the chest cavity. The intercostal muscles between the ribs relax, causing the area of the chest cavity to reduce.
Exhalation (or expiration) is the flow of the breath out of an organism. In animals, it is the movement of air from the lungs out of the airways , to the external environment during breathing . This happens due to elastic properties of the lungs, as well as the internal intercostal muscles which lower the rib cage and decrease thoracic volume.
the action of sending air out of your lungs: With a short exhalation, he prepared for the work ahead. You could hear every ragged exhalation. See. exhale. Fewer examples. The scans produced an image of each patient's lungs after exhalation. I could hear her breathing next to me, and felt a faint exhalation.
1. : something exhaled or given off : emanation. 2. : an act of exhaling. Examples of exhalation in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web One measures the volume of air in the lungs and triggers muscles for exhalation.
noun. the act of exhaling. something that is exhaled; vapor; emanation. exhalation. / ĕks′hə-lā ′ shən /. The act of breathing out air. During exhalation, the diaphragm relaxes and moves upward, causing compression of the lungs and an outward flow of air. Also called expiration. Compare inhalation.
the action of sending air out of your lungs: With a short exhalation, he prepared for the work ahead. You could hear every ragged exhalation. See. exhale. Fewer examples. The scans produced an image of each patient's lungs after exhalation. I could hear her breathing next to me, and felt a faint exhalation.
an act of breathing out the air or smoke that is in your lungs; an amount of air or smoke that you breathe out. Carbon dioxide is eliminated from the body during exhalation. Each exhalation was visible in the cold air. Definitions on the go.
exhalation. [ ĕks′hə-lā ′ shən ] The act of breathing out air. During exhalation, the diaphragm relaxes and moves upward, causing compression of the lungs and an outward flow of air. Also called expiration Compare inhalation. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011.
(Definition of exhale from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) exhale | Intermediate English. verb [ I/T ] us / eksˈheɪl / Add to word list. to breathe out air: [ I ] She held her breath for a moment and then exhaled.
