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hyperventilations

hyperventilations is the plural of hyperventilation.

Meaning of hyperventilation

Noun

hyperventilation (countable and uncountable, plural hyperventilations)

  1. The state of breathing faster or deeper than necessary.
    • As artificial hyperventilation is advocated in the treatment of raised intracranial pressure, it must be questioned where to set the limit beyond which hypocapnically induced cerebral tissue hypoxia may occur.2012, H. Penzholz, M. Brock, J. Hamer, Brain Hypoxia: Pain, →ISBN, page 42

Questions about hyperventilations

What is hyperventilations the plural of?
Hyperventilations is the plural of hyperventilation.

Words near hyperventilations in the dictionary

  1. hyperventilate
  2. hyperventilated
  3. hyperventilates
  4. hyperventilating
  5. hyperventilation
  6. hyperventilations
  7. hyperventilative
  8. hyperventilator
  9. hyperventilators
  10. hyperventilatory
  11. hyperverbal

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