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Biotovsky breath

Biotovsky breath (S. of Biot, the French doctor, was born in 1878; synonym: A biota breath) – the type of periodic breathing differing in alternation long (about one half-minute and more) pauses and the rhythmic uniform respiratory motions; it is noted at circulatory disturbances, organic lesions of a brain, shock, intoxication and other serious conditions of an organism proceeding with a deep hypoxia of a myelencephalon.

 
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