aspirate

Examples

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• In her speech therapy sessions, she focused on helping her students correctly produce the aspirate sounds in their pronunciation.

• The technique was done once or twice for most of the patients, and adequate aspirate was obtained for cytopathological diagnosis.

  Academic text (2007)

• Whether a bone marrow aspirate should be undertaken or not has been a matter of long-lasting debate.

  Academic text (2001)

• Another technique is the analysis of multiple fine-needle aspirates in high-risk women.

  Academic text (1999)

• A bone marrow aspirate was obtained in 985 (50%) of the 1984 children for whom data was available.

  Academic text (2001)

• Petrakis and his group in San Francisco analyzed 2,701 nipple-duct-fluid aspirates.

  Academic text (1999)

• We studied the bacteriology of maxillary sinus aspirates obtained from patients diagnosed with chronic sinusitis.

  Academic text (2003)

• Histologically, lymph node aspirates are characterized by the presence of small, pleomorphic, gram-negative, argyrophilic bacilli on Warthin-Starry staining.

  Academic text (2004)

• When teaching phonetics, it's important to demonstrate the aspirate sound in words like 'hat' and 'pin'.

• The teacher explained that an aspirate is a sound made with a strong burst of breath, such as the 'h' in 'help'.

Synonyms

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aspiration

vsaspirate

• Specialized

1 7.2

A small burst of breath when saying consonants like p or t

is a speech sound made with a burst of breath like h or p

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology