The trouble may result from a previous congestion of the lungs or from a breaking down of the lung substance, or from specific disorders.
On auscultation, when suppuration is taking place and the lung structure is breaking down, a bubbling or gurgling crepitation, caused by the passage of air through pus, is heard.
In the larynx and the bronchi tubercles may vegetate upon the mucous membrane, and ulcers may result from their breaking down.
As we shall see, most of the curious deformities of the old that make locomotion so difficult and so painful are due to a breaking down of the arch just after middle life and then to a progressive deformity of the foot.
There are men whose mentality and responsibility is breaking down, and who are on the way to the insane asylum for various causes, who cannot be thus influenced.
If the disease remains confined to the glands originally infected and there are no signs of breaking down, "expectant measures" may be persevered with.
The infection rarely spreads to the lymphatics, but we have seen inoculation tubercle of the index-finger followed by a large cold abscess on the median side of the upper arm and by a huge mass of breaking down glands in the axilla.
Others again, influenced by the risk of extension of the disease and by the destruction of tissue and disfigurement caused by breaking down of the tuberculous tissue and mixed infection, advocate the removal of the glands by operation.
It is obvious, therefore, that fermentation is really only a change of position, a breaking down of one compound into two simpler compounds.
Fermentation nearly always consists of a process of breaking down of complex bodies, like sugar, into simpler ones, like alcohol and carbonic acid.
But roughly we may say that in the tank there is a breaking down (denitrification and decomposition) and in the filter-beds a building up (nitrification).
FREDA (Who, now that the fight is over and won, is on the verge of breaking down, interrupts Sitka Charley, and speaks herself.
FREDA (Breaking down, seeming to droop for an instant, with one short dry sob or catch in the throat.
Their coldness accentuated the tenderness and sympathy of the servants, and Arthur was near to breaking down as he pressed the hands held out to him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "breaking down" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
