pneumotaxic
English edit
Etymology edit
Analysed as pneumo- + -taxic, and the latter is from τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”)
Adjective edit
pneumotaxic (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the regulation of respiratory rate.
- 2013, Robert Fitzgerald, The Regulation of Respiration During Sleep and Anesthesia, →ISBN, page 6:
- The inspiratory-off switch (IOS) system consists of discharges arising from firstly, the pulmonary stretch receptors through the Breuer-Hering reflex and secondly the pneumotaxic pattern generator.
- 2013, Will Beachey, Respiratory Care Anatomy and Physiology, →ISBN:
- The inhibitory neurons that switch off the inspiratory ramp arise from the pneumotaxic center and pulmonary stretch receptors, which are discussed in the next section.
- 2014, Chi-Sang Poon, Gang Song, “Bidirectional Plasticity of Pontine Pneumotaxic Postinspiratory Drive: Implication for a Pontomedullary Respiratory Central Pattern Generator”, in The Central Nervous System Control of Respiration, →ISBN, page 235:
- Traditionally, the pontine pneumotaxic mechanism has been thought to contribute a tonic descending input that lowers the IOS threshold in medullary respiratory central pattern generator (rCPG) circuits, but otherwise does not constitute part of the rCPG.
References edit
- “pneumotaxic” in Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary. (2012).