prone pressure method

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a method of artificial respiration in which the patient is placed face downward, pressure then being rhythmically applied with the hands to the lower part of the thorax.

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Also called Schafer method, Schafer's method.

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The 2014 midterm elections are just months behind us, but already Flake feels the pressure of the 2016 presidential elections.
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Does any of that come from being attuned to the pressure of that need to entertain?
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He held it, but it was without pressure; without recognizance of the delight with which he once grasped it.
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To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.
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Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
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With him one is at high pressure all the time, and I have gained a good many more ideas from him than I can work up in a hurry.
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Roman Pane who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage alludes to another method of using the herb.
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