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An instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs, or the volume of air which can be expelled from the chest after the deepest possible inspiration. Cf. Pneumatometer.
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A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.
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A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.
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A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
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A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
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Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.
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Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.
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To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
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One who holds to inspiration.
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The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
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Spiritual inspiration at separate times, or at intervals.
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The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
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The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life.
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A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration.
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Pertaining to inspiration.
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Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse.
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An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.
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A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough.
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Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.
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A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration.
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