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breath
(redirected from held breath)

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breath
1. the intake and expulsion of air during respiration
2. the air inhaled or exhaled during respiration
3. a single respiration or inhalation of air, etc


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These days such deathly still memorial silence in the theater may not be rare, but this silence is itself disquieting, unnatural; the audience collectively exhaled held breath when the minute was over and the performing could resume.
And there was one last moment of held breath when Novotny turned a close- range effort just above Seaman's bar from 10 yards out.
18, 2004 Imagine a medical technology so advanced that with one held breath a doctor can view a three-dimensional holographic image of a patient's heart, brain, abdomen or other area of the body detecting any tumors or masses and diagnosing diseases and ailments once only diagnosable with surgery.
 
 
 
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