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COMPLEMENTAL AIR

Definition: COMPLEMENTAL AIR

COMPLEMENTAL AIR

1. (Physiol.), the air (averaging 100 cubic inches) which can be drawn into the lungs in addition to the tidal air, by the deepest possible inspiration.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: COMPLEMENTAL AIR

Language Translations for "COMPLEMENTAL AIR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

komplementærluft, inspiratorisk reserve. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

complementaire lucht. (various references)

   

French

  

volume de réserve inspiratoire. (various references)

   

German

  

Komplementärluft, inspiratorische Reservevolumen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

όγκος εφεδρικού αναπνευστικού αέρα, συμπληρωματικός αέρας. (various references)

   

Italian

  

volume di riserva inspiratoria (inspiratory reserve volume), aria complementare. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omplementalcay airay

   

Portuguese

  

volume de reserva inspiratório, ar complementar. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

capacidad inspiratoria (inspiratory capacity), aire complementario. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: COMPLEMENTAL AIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-l-l-m-m-n-o-p-r-t"

-3 letters: complemental.

-4 letters: emancipator, implementor, reclamation.

-5 letters: allometric, allopatric, altarpiece, ameliorate, carnallite, carpellate, ceremonial, citronella, clinometer, colemanite, complainer, complement, compliment, emancipate, epicentral, immortelle, impalement, importance, incomplete, interlocal, laceration, lanceolate, maceration, manometric, mercantile, parliament, penetralia, peritoneal, permeation, planimeter, pratincole, prelection, reallocate, relational, trampoline, treponemal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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