Exhalative
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Pertaining to the process of exhaling.
"What little research has been done on humans in this respect does give some indication that positive and negative affective expressions are associated with differences in the inhalative and exhalative components of respiration."
- 2 Pertaining to or resulting from a process that expels matter, such as the eruption of a volcano or a hot-water vent.
"Accordingly much trace elements in hydrothermal solutions will pass unaffected by scavenging of biogenic FeOOH in the inner exhalative zone."
Example
More examples"What little research has been done on humans in this respect does give some indication that positive and negative affective expressions are associated with differences in the inhalative and exhalative components of respiration."
Etymology
From exhale + -ative.
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