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wheeze::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | take a breath, respire, breathe, suspire |
wheeze::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
| Derivation | wheezy |
Examples of wheeze
wheeze
There's something in the air that makes you sniffle, sneeze, stuff up or wheeze.
From the tennessean.com
In fact, only 15 to 20 percent of kids who wheeze go on to have lifelong asthma.
From the cnn.com
I'm a middle aged man with a limp and a wheeze and a son and a wife that I love.
From the techcrunch.com
Here is another little wheeze that pathological liar Gove has inficted upon them.
From the guardian.co.uk
House dust mite sensitization in toddlers predicts current wheeze at age 12 years.
From the sciencedaily.com
Episodes of wheeze affect about 20 per cent of children up to the age of five.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It worked perfectly well before this wheeze of exploiting the young was available.
From the guardian.co.uk
That is the wheeze David Willetts, the universities minister, unveiled on May 10th.
From the economist.com
Children who ate nuts at least three times a week were less likely to wheeze.
From the sciencedaily.com
- Breathing with a husky or whistling sound
- Breathe with difficulty
- (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick; "a clever wheeze probably succeeded in neutralizing the German espionage threat"
- A wheeze is a continuous, coarse, whistling sound produced in the respiratory airways during breathing. For wheezes to occur, some part of the respiratory tree must be narrowed or obstructed, or airflow velocity within the respiratory tree must be heightened. ...
- A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration; An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone; A scheme or plan; Something very humorous or laughable; To breathe hard, and with an ...
- (Wheezing) the sound made by air moving through partially obstructed airways.
- (Wheezing) the high-pitched whistling sound of air entering or leaving narrowed airways.
- (Wheezing) A high-pitched noise that comes from the chest as air is forced through airways that are too narrow.
- (Wheezing) The production of a whistling noise during difficult breathing that occurs in asthma. This noise indicates that the airway is narrowed and that airflow may be partially obstructed.
