It is a breathing disorder affecting the expiratory function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Remedies for Curing Bronchitis] Reference

“The utmost efforts of the expiratory muscles”: Ibid., p.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

The stammerer has full control of the mechanism of articulation, but not of the expiratory blast.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

For when a solution of continuity occurs in the lungs, the inspiratory and expiratory forces fail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century] Reference

To see the workings of expiratory accent no language is a better teacher in this than the dialects of Coptic.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: PIE VERBS AND STRESS.] Reference

They found that the best predictors of cognitive change over a two-year period included strenuous activity and peak pulmonary expiratory flow rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [SciAm - Fit Body, Fit Mind? Your Workout Makes You Smarter] Reference

Beyond that point there is no expiratory pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

Alarming obstruction., often both inspiratory and expiratory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

It is noteworthy that all the utterances of sound are expiratory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.] Reference

In the case of the expiratory pressure of five units of strength being.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

In other words, the expiratory energy is transformed into energy of motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

Can all the expiratory force expended in tone-production show such a small result?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

Before his transplant, the patient's forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1).    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Coughing and sneezing are sudden and spasmodic expiratory efforts, and generally involuntary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference

The true expiratory blast will, however, always be recognized when the tube is in the trachea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference

After the larynx has been studied the importance of the expiratory blast will be better understood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged)] Reference

The idea of any necessity of relieving the vocal cords of the expiratory pressure is purely fanciful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

Patients were monitored via invasive pulmonary artery catheter for end-expiratory central venous pressure.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

In this way is regulated the amount of the fleshy mass of the vocal cords exposed to the expiratory blast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

The primary safety measure was FEV1 (forced expiratory volume in one second), a standard test of lung function.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In singing, on the contrary, the expiratory pressure is much more powerful, yet the expiration must be much slower.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

For each study participant, doctors monitored morning peak expiratory flow (PEF), a standard measure of lung function.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In one the breath is expelled powerfully, the object being to bring a strong expiratory pressure to bear on the larynx.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

Postoperative forced expiratory volume (FEV1) in the sleeve lobectomy group improved by 7. 9% compared with predicted FEV.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

In some cases the patient can, by a violent expiratory effort, such as coughing, project the goitre upwards into the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The power of the expiratory blast is just what it would be if one unit of strength were exerted in an "uncontrolled" expiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

So far as the effect of the expiratory blast on the vocal cords is concerned, "controlling" the breath has no influence whatever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

So long as the expiratory pressure is steadily maintained, this tone may be held, and yet no strain is imposed on the vocal cords.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

Mean pulmonary function parameters for forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and total lung capacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

That the glottis-closing muscles are too weak to withstand a powerful expiratory pressure is therefore an entirely erroneous statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

Whatever pressure is exerted by the expiratory muscles must be almost counterbalanced by the opposed action of the muscles of inspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

The double expiratory movement may also be detected by allowing the that the expiratory current is not continuous, but is broken into two jets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

It was an even and touching cry, not so much filled with grief as her sobs generally were, and seemed to be expiratory rather than the reverse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference

Early in the second minute the convulsions cease, often suddenly; simultaneously with the cessation the expiratory efforts become indistinguishable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Testimony against scientific cruelty] Reference

The sudden air pressure exerted on the interior walls of the larynx by the expiratory contraction causes the ventricles of the larynx to expand by inflation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern] Reference

When the air is expelled from the lungs its very force pushes the cartilage and vocal cords out, and consequently noise is not produced in the expiratory act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference