Overall, the net change in maximum breathing capacity is zero.

Fire Department studies also have shown that firefighters suffered a substantial loss of breathing capacity.

This resulted in a drowsy newborn with poor breathing capacity.

In 1757, she contracted pneumonia, which permanently damaged her breathing capacity.

It is typically measured by having a person exercise on a treadmill while heart rate and breathing capacity are recorded.

Spirometry: A lung function test to measure your breathing capacity and how well you breathe.

He took her to a doctor who found that she had less than half the normal breathing capacity of a child her age, the lawyer said.

Lung Care is designed to promote a healthy respiratory system and support healthy breathing capacity.

Then I had another attack and found I had only 65 percent breathing capacity.

Nikethamide is a respiratory stimulant that affects the central nervous system, having the effect of increasing breathing capacity.

During the last 30 years of her life, Sister Dulce's lungs were highly impaired and she had only 30% breathing capacity.

New drugs released this year, called artificial surfactants, can improve the breathing capacity of the infant's normally stiff lungs.

Independent experts assessed them for so-called crows'-feet, and their breathing capacity was tested.

"Whether it's nerve conductions or cardiac index or breathing capacity or oxygen intake.

The hormone has been shown to stimulate breathing capacity in pregnant women, who produce high amounts of progesterone, and who tend to hyperventilate.

Your asthma action plan may include measuring your breathing capacity with a device called a spirometer and taking a dose of quick relief inhaler medication.

They suggested that all sufferers undergo a thorough analysis of their neuromuscular functions, especially their breathing capacity and the muscles that are giving them trouble.

His autopsy was performed at the home and revealed that the left lung had collapsed and the right was at one-eighth its breathing capacity.

People with asthma and other chronic lung diseases lose breathing capacity after red tide exposure, and emergency rooms treat more pneumonia and bronchitis during blooms.

Although she is hopeful that a new treatment is making some progress, she said her breathing capacity during programs was only about 20 percent that of a normal skater.

When your breathing capacity for physical exertion decreases, you will be breathing harder and that may make you dizzy and you could pass out in the water.

It was also limited by its inherent restriction on breathing capacity due to the need for the fuel/air mixture to be aspirated through the hollow crankshaft and crankcase, which directly affected its volumetric efficiency.

An autopsy revealed his lungs had diminished to one-eighth their normal breathing capacity, a result of bronchial pneumonia, and that an egg-sized abscess on his chest had eroded one of his ribs.

The researchers, whose report appears in the current issue of Thorax asked the families of 60 children, ages 6 to 13, to keep close records of their asthma attacks and to conduct daily tests of their breathing capacity.

A collection of bloody fluid caused scar tissue to form and squeeze the lower lobe of his left lung, impeding his breathing capacity by more than 25 percent, Mr. Clinton's doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia said.