wheezing [医] 喘鸣
wheezing[ adj ]
relating to breathing with a whistling sound
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Wheeze \Wheeze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wheezed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wheezing}.] [OE. whesen, AS. hw[=e]san (cf. Icel. hv[ae]sa
to hiss, Sw. hv["a]sa, Dan. hv[ae]se); akin to AS. hw[=o]sta
a cough, D. hoest, G. husten, OHG. huosto, Icel. h[=o]sti,
Lith. kosti to cough, Skr. k[=a]s. [root]43. Cf. {Husky}
hoarse.]
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling
sound, as persons affected with asthma. ``Wheezing lungs.''
--Shak.
- He broke into the gypsy bus business in 1968 piloting a wheezing school bus coast-to-coast for a California commune called the Morning Star Brothers.
- Today, Ali, a bundle of bones and mottled skin, cannot work because he cannot walk 100 yards without wheezing uncontrollably. He lives in a tin shed, survives on the charity of his neighbors and waits for government relief.
- As the mercury nears 100 one midmorning, retiree Ed Layton pulls his wheezing green Pontiac into a casino parking lot.
- If you experience shortness of breath or persistent coughing or wheezing, the first thing is to seek medical advice on begining diagnostic tests.
- A "heavy, wheezing, ignoble presence," wrote Hemingway.
- I almost drowned twice," said the wheezing Haavisto, a Finnish immigrant convicted of manslaughter.
- And as auto makers weave around the wheezing regulatory machinery, government policies for the environment, energy, federal deficit and American workers are subverted.
- Asthma patients suffer from constriction of bronchial passages that causes wheezing and shortness of breath. Bronchodilators provide immediate relief by relaxing muscles to help open up the passages.
- The heart of Magnitogorsk is its steel plant, and that plant, he concludes, is a "wheezing dinosaur" waiting to be destroyed.
- Just outside the glow of the Plaza's lights a wheezing, fly-by-night Moscovitch skulks.
- "Ecotourism, really, is cheaper," Selengut said. "Because you don't promote excess." It can be hard enough for an asthmatic to walk in cold, dry air without gasping or wheezing - and it can be tougher still to exercise.
- Now that Boots' wheezing pharmaceuticals strategy has finally collapsed, the company cannot avoid questions about the future of its drugs division.
- But by early the next afternoon, the baby was crying and wheezing so badly, Mr. Wynn called the police for an ambulance, afraid it might die.
- Many of the nation's pollution-fighters at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency have been gasping and wheezing from an air pollution problem apparently caused by new carpeting.
- Guitarist Billy Jenkins' was wheezing his way through an excruciating version of 'What a Wonderful World'.
- Barely a snivel competed with Stern's melodies, while the sneezes, wheezing and barks swelled under the cover of applause during breaks.
- "We were in the store and all of our customers just started coughing and wheezing at the same time," said Kelli Mulvaney of Pet Centers, one of the three stores.