pant(4) (iou) and glands of auditory tube (medicine)

pant(4) (iou)

pant verb. [pant] ME.
[Rel. to Old French pantaisier be agitated, gasp, pant from Proto-Romance from Greek phantasioun cause to imagine, make game of, from phantasia: see FANTASY noun.]
verb intrans. Breathe hard or with quick short breaths, as from exertion or agitation; gasp for breath. ME.
R. Thomas Amy was panting slightly from her climb. fig.: Pope The dying gales that pant upon the trees.
b. Go or run (as if) panting. E18.
c. Of an engine etc.: emit hot air, vapour, etc., in loud puffs. M18.
verb intrans. Of the heart or chest: throb or heave violently or rapidly, esp. from strong emotion; palpitate, pulsate. LME.
M. Prior For breath his panting bosom heaves. Shelley Her very name, But spoken by a stranger, makes my heart Sicken and pant.
verb intrans. Gasp for air, water, etc.; fig. long with breathless eagerness; yearn for, after, or to do. M16.
E. Young All the bliss I pant for, is..a refuge from severer pain.
verb trans.
a. Say gaspingly; gasp out. E17.
A. Ransome 'It's just the wind we want,' panted Daisy.
b. Drive forth or out by agitated gasping. poet. E17-E19.
verb intrans. Of a ship: have its hull move in and out as a result of the stress produced by the movement of the water. Chiefly as panting verbal noun. M19.
pantingly adverb with quick short breaths E17.

glands of auditory tube (medicine)

glands of auditory tube -->
mucous glands of auditory tube
Glands located principally near the pharyngeal end of the auditory tube.

Synonym: glandulae tubariae, glands of auditory tube, glands of eustachian tube.

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