And breathability is good.

Pneumonia causes difficulty in breathing.

You cannot kill yourself by holding your breath.

Tom is hooked up to a respirator.

Or polio? How many of you remember the iron lung?

Mary was offended when Tom bought her some breath freshener.

He grew pale and for a moment could hardly breathe.

Carbon dioxide has no liquid state at pressures below .

I want to hold my breath for a really long time. How could it be done?

And that s how your body excretes waste, is through your breath, your bowels and your perspiration.

In this scene, people are living in an iron lung.

I completely trained to get my breath hold time up for what I needed to do.

By the time I was a teenager I was able to hold my breath for three minutes and 30 seconds.

Apnoea is a medical term which comes from Greek it literally means without breath .

The diagnosis of brain death needs to be rigorous, in order to be certain that the condition is irreversible.

Minutes pass, with no one to count my breaths, no jailor, no whip to lacerate the life out of me.

On December 21, an Italian doctor, Mario Riccio, disconnected a respirator that was keeping Piergiorgio Welby alive.

And he said, David, you're a magician, create the illusion of not breathing, it will be much easier.

Why? Because the soul, the human soul, embodies a piece of the divine breath, a piece of the divine soul.

You need a pressure breathing system with a G suit that squeezes you, that helps you to breathe in and helps you to exhale.

Most people find that very soothing, and, interestingly, 12 cycles per minute is roughly the frequency of the breathing of a sleeping human.

Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants.

Now, as we breathe, we produce carbon dioxide, and that carbon dioxide needs to be scrubbed out of the system.

Mesothelioma is particularly pernicious, because it is the mechanics of how we stay alive the very act of breathing that causes the cancer that kills.

and go from this concept of walking, breathing, and then his hands, speak, and ultimately happiness and function.

Yeltsin may lack the stamina to complete another 6 years as president, but that doesn t matter. He will insist on serving his country until his dying breath, on leaving this world only from his Kremlin office.

Asthma large number, we could detect things like pollen count, air quality, respiratory rate. Breast cancer, I'll show you an example of that real quickly.

And what she did was she went out on a cold, dry night and breathed back and forth on the lawn to leave to leave her life's mark, the mark of her life.

He will insist on serving his country until his dying breath, on leaving this world only from his Kremlin office.

For a moment the sound he emitted seemed to have startled Karenin, and he stopped but, after he had breathed twice, the whistling recommenced with fresh and calm regularity.

After Riccio gave him a sedative and switched off the respirator, Welby said thank you three times to his wife, his friends, and his doctor.

Every morning, this is for months, I would wake up and the first thing that I would do is I would hold my breath for, out of 52 minutes, I would hold my breath for 44 minutes.

So, I don't know if it was the magic or the lore of the Cayman islands, but John Tierney flew down and did a piece on the seriousness of breath holding.

My company, for example, is launching a portfolio of 15 essential medicines to treat diseases including diabetes, respiratory illnesses, and breast cancer.

Others are kept for days in a water tank with only a small hole to breathe they pee in the water and drink from it.

He was attached to respirator and to another machine to clear wastes from his body, and was fed through a stomach tube.

Metaphorically, military power provides a degree of security that is to political and economic order as oxygen is to breathing little noticed until it begins to become scarce.

My next pursuit was I wanted to see how long I could go without breathing, like how long I could survive with nothing, not even air.

The EPA's website says breathing air containing ozone can reduce lung function and increase respiratory symptoms like asthma.

The scream was so terrible that Levin did not even jump up, but looked breathlessly with a frightened and inquiring glance at the doctor, who bent his head on one side to listen and smiled approvingly.

The human voice mysterious, spontaneous, primal. With these words, soprano Claron McFadden invites us to explore the mysteries of breathing and singing, as she performs the challenging Aria, by John Cage.

So, normally I would start at 38 beats per minute, and while holding my breath it would drop to 12 beats per minute, which is pretty unusual.

Delhi's barely breathable air has become tolerable, following a big move to compressed natural gas in public transport, retirement of old vehicles, and higher emissions standards in new ones.

So, I figured, Oprah had dedicated an hour to doing this breath hold thing, if I had cracked early it would be a whole show about how depressed I am.

Levin could scarcely believe his ears, but there was no room for doubt. The screaming had ceased, and he heard a sound of movement, of rustling, of accelerated breathing, and her voice, faltering, living, tender, and happy, as it said, 'It's over.'