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breathing spell
noun
An opportunity to rest or give thought to a situation; a short respite.
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His lawyer, Lawrence V. Gelber, later told the court he needed "a proverbial breathing spell".
GIVES A BREATHING SPELL Belief Held on Both Sides That New Arrangement Is Possible in the Interim.
The French capital has a breathing spell from the series of terrorist attacks that sowed panic last month.
However, Soviet assurances on this point would serve to reduce some of the current tensions and give us all a breathing spell.
The school was similar to one in The Constant Nymph where only breathing spell Sanger children could get was by going to the lavoratory.
Also, he said, a cease‐fire, must not serve to give the enemy a breathing spell and must be conducive to reaching a general settlement.
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The body responds to the pain by slowing down heart rate that eventually causes unconsciousness.[1] A child experiencing a pallid breath-holding spell stops breathing and loses consciousness almost immediately, turning pale and limp in the process.
Infants may stop breathing for a spell, a terrifying condition called apnea.
However, at age 5 weeks he presented to hospital with a history of breathing problems with breath-holding spells and apnoea.
He'd had a longtime patient with severe asthma whom he had put on steroids to ease her breathing during a bad spell.
These were analyzed for short 11-15ss) and long (> 15 s) apnea spells, periodic breathing, and episodes of hemoglobin oxygen desaturation and bradycardia.
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