- cogwheel respiration
- breathing characterized by peculiar jerky inhalations; the sounds of inhalation and exhalation are not continuous but are split into two or more separate sounds. Called also interrupted or jerky r.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
cogwheel respiration
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