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Breath Holding

"Breath Holding" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An involuntary or voluntary pause in breathing, sometimes accompanied by loss of consciousness.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Breath Holding" by people in this website by year, and whether "Breath Holding" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 14 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2017
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