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  2. Aspiration - Wikipedia

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    Aspiration, the inhalation of fluid while drinking, a common symptom of dysphagia. Aspiration, the practice of pulling back on the plunger of a syringe prior to injecting medication. Aspiration pneumonia, a lung infection caused by pulmonary aspiration; Aspiration thrombectomy, embolectomy where a thrombus is removed by suction; Bone marrow ...

  3. Allophone - Wikipedia

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    Aspiration: In English, a voiceless plosive /p, t, k/ is aspirated (has a strong explosion of breath) if it is at the beginning of the first or a stressed syllable in a word. For example, [pʰ] as in pin and [p] as in spin are allophones for the phoneme /p/ because they cannot be used to distinguish words (in fact, they occur in complementary ...

  4. Aspirated consonant - Wikipedia

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    In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with their unaspirated counterparts, but in some other languages, notably most South Asian languages and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.

  5. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    surgical puncture for aspiration: Greek κέντησις (kéntēsis) amniocentesis: cephal(o)-of or pertaining to the head (as a whole) Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ), the head cephalalgy, hydrocephalus: cerat(o)-of or pertaining to the cornu; a horn Greek κέρας, κερατ-(kéras, kerat-), a horn ceratoid: cerebell(o)-

  6. Pulmonary aspiration - Wikipedia

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    Pulmonary aspiration is the entry of solid or liquid material such as pharyngeal secretions, food, drink, or stomach contents from the oropharynx or gastrointestinal tract, into the trachea and lungs. [1] When pulmonary aspiration occurs during eating and drinking, the aspirated material is often colloquially referred to as "going down the ...

  7. Ejaculatory prayer - Wikipedia

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    In Christian piety, an ejaculation, sometimes known as ejaculatory prayer or aspiration, is "a short prayer, in which the mind is directed to God, ...

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  9. Preaspiration - Wikipedia

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    Preaspiration is comparatively uncommon across languages of the world, [4] and is claimed by some to not be phonemically contrastive in any language. [5] Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996) note that, at least in the case of Icelandic, preaspirated stops have a longer duration of aspiration than normally aspirated (post-aspirated) stops, comparable to clusters of [h] +consonant in languages with such ...