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breathhold

noun

Etymology

From breath + hold.

  1. derived from *kel-✻
  2. derived from *haldaną✻
  3. derived from *haldan✻
  4. derived from healdan
  5. derived from holden
  6. compounded as breathhold — “breath + hold”

Definitions

  1. The act of holding breath.

  2. An instance of holding breath.

    • Acquisition times can be long and prevent imaging within the time span of a single breathhold.

  3. To hold one's breath.

    • If the patient was in a condition to breathold, this was done; however, due to the general condition of many of the patients studied, this was not always attempted.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA