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- noun medicine
insufficient breathing
Etymologies
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under- + ventilation
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Once a teacher, however, there is no further physical examination, -- no way of discovering physical incapacity, nothing to prevent a teacher from exposing class after class to pulmonary tuberculosis contracted because of overwork and underventilation.
Civics and Health William H. Allen
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