Sentence examples for pulmonic from inspiring English sources

This is known as a pulmonic airstream.

The right side of the heart is enlarged, the valve sounds from the pulmonic valve may be loud, and there may be electrocardiographic evidence of chronic strain on the right side of the heart.

Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, uses this mechanism to produce both ejective stops and fricatives, which contrast with the more usual stops and fricatives made with a pulmonic airstream mechanism.

Unless a specific statement is made to the contrary, consonants are usually presumed to have a pulmonic airstream and no secondary articulation, and it is also assumed that they are not laterals or nasals.

Thus the consonant at the beginning of the word swim is a (1) voiceless, (2) labialized, (3) alveolar, (4) pulmonic, (5) central, (6) oral, (7) fricative.

Involvement of either the tricuspid or pulmonic valve occurs in a similar fashion.

"If only he'd given the horse Dr. Locock's Pulmonic Wafers": a look at product placement in nineteenth-century British novels.

In its defense, Pocket Books argued that advertising in books dated to the Victorian era: examine a serialized 1849 edition of Dickens's "David Copperfield" and you'll find advertisements for Freeman's Spermazine Wax Lights and Dr. Lucock's Pulmonic Wafers jostling with those for Arrowsmith's Pianoforte and Toilet Covers.

Austronesian languages, by contrast, may have the simplest sounds of any language family.Perhaps the most exotic sounds are clicks technically "non-pulmonic" consonants that do not use the airstream from the lungs for their articulation.