Usually means: Relating to the exhalation of breath.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. expiratory: Merriam-Webster
  2. expiratory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. expiratory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. expiratory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. expiratory: Vocabulary.com
  6. expiratory: Wordnik
  7. expiratory: Wiktionary
  8. expiratory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. expiratory: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. expiratory: Dictionary.com
  11. Expiratory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Expiratory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. expiratory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. expiratory: Rhymezone
  15. Expiratory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. expiratory: FreeDictionary.org
  17. expiratory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. expiratory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expiratory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. expiratory: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. expiratory: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (expiratory)

▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to expiration

Similar:
expirational, exhalatory, exhalative, respirative, exhalational, inspiratory, excretory, expulsionary, perspiratory, inhalatory, more...

Opposite:
inspiratory, inhalation

Types:
wheeze, wheezy, hiss, hissing, panting, gasping, more...

Phrases:
expiratory phase, expiratory center, expiratory stridor, expiratory dyspnea, forced expiratory volume, more...

Adjectives:
maximal, peak, inspiratory, forced, maximum, end, diffuse, positive, mid, latter, prolonged

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Similar:
expirational, exhalatory, exhalative, respirative, exhalational, inspiratory, excretory, expulsionary, perspiratory, inhalatory, more...

Opposite:
inspiratory, inhalation

Types:
wheeze, wheezy, hiss, hissing, panting, gasping, more...

Phrases:
expiratory phase, expiratory center, expiratory stridor, expiratory dyspnea, forced expiratory volume, expiratory reserve volume, positive end expiratory pressure, Peak expiratory flow, more...

Adjectives:
maximal, peak, inspiratory, forced, maximum, end, diffuse, positive, mid, latter, prolonged



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