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ataxic breathing

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ataxic breathing,
a type of breathing associated with a lesion in the medullary respiratory center and characterized by a series of inspirations and expirations. See also Biot's respiration.


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Emerging Evidence In 2003, physicians at the Intermountain Sleep Disorders Center in Salt Lake City described ataxic breathing, central apnea, sustained hypoxemia, and other abnormalities in three patients on long-term opioid therapy for pain (Chest 2003;123:632-9).
 
 
 
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