breathhold

plural breathholds

1. especiallyuncommonmedicineThe act of holding breath.

   The spatial resolution and signal-to-noise in coronary MRA can be further improved by either switching to nonbreathhold techniques (thus eliminating some of the time constraints needed for breathhold techniques) or by using better coil designs[.]

   2006, Andre J. Duerinckx, Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography, →ISBN, page 44

2. especiallyuncommonmedicineAn instance of holding breath.

   Acquisition times can be long and prevent imaging within the time span of a single breathhold.

   2012, Mark Creager, Joseph Loscalzo, Joshua A. Beckman, Vascular Medicine: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease, →ISBN

present singular third person breathholds · participle present breathholding · participle past breathheld · past breathheld

1. uncommonmedicineTo hold one's breath.

   If the patient was in a condition to breathold, this was done; however, due to the general condition of many of the patients studied, this was not always attempted.

   1995, Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England