Aspiration or aspirations may refer to:

Linguistics

Aspirated consonant In phonetics, aspiration is a strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. In English, aspirated consonants are allophones in complementary distribution with t ...

, a plosive or fricative pronounced with a strong burst of air *

Voiceless glottal fricative The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant '' phonologically'', but often lacks the ...

, the sound **

Debuccalization Debuccalization or deoralization is a sound change or alternation in which an oral consonant loses its original place of articulation and moves it to the glottis (, , or ). The pronunciation of a consonant as is sometimes called aspiration ...

, the conversion of a consonant to or **

Rough breathing In the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, the rough breathing ( or ; ) character is a diacritical mark used to indicate the presence of an sound before a vowel, diphthong, or after rho. It remained in the polytonic orthography even af ...

, a symbol used in Ancient Greek to indicate a sound

Medicine

* Aspiration,

suction (medicine) In medicine, devices are sometimes necessary to create suction. Suction may be used to clear the airway of blood, saliva, vomit, or other secretion Secretion is the movement of material from one point to another, such as a secreted chemical s ...

to remove liquid or gas/dust * Aspiration, the practice of pulling back on the plunger of a syringe prior to injecting medication. *

Aspiration pneumonia Aspiration pneumonia is a type of lung infection that is due to a relatively large amount of material from the stomach or mouth entering the lungs. Signs and symptoms often include fever and cough of relatively rapid onset. Complications may incl ...

, a lung infection caused by pulmonary aspiration * Aspiration thrombectomy, embolectomy where a thrombus is removed by suction * Bone marrow aspiration * Joint aspiration, or

arthrocentesis Arthrocentesis, or joint aspiration, is the clinical procedure performed to diagnose and, in some cases, treat musculoskeletal conditions. The procedure entails using a syringe to collect synovial fluid from or inject medication into the joint c ...

* Nasogastric aspiration or

nasogastric intubation Nasogastric intubation is a medical process involving the insertion of a plastic tube (nasogastric tube or NG tube) through the nose, down the esophagus, and down into the stomach. Orogastric intubation is a similar process involving the insertio ...

, the removal of the stomach's contents via a nasogastric tube *

Needle aspiration biopsy Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a diagnostic procedure used to investigate lumps or masses. In this technique, a thin (23–25 gauge (0.52 to 0.64 mm outer diameter)), hollow needle is inserted into the mass for sampling of cells that, ...

, a surgical procedure *

Pulmonary aspiration Pulmonary aspiration is the entry of solid or liquid material such as pharyngeal secretions, food, drink, or stomach contents from the oropharynx or gastrointestinal tract, into the trachea and lungs. When pulmonary aspiration occurs during ea ...

, the entry of secretions or foreign material into the trachea and lungs, includes the inhalation of fluid while drinking *

Vacuum aspiration Vacuum or suction aspiration is a procedure that uses a vacuum source to remove an embryo or fetus through the cervix. The procedure is performed to induce abortion, as a treatment for incomplete spontaneous abortion (otherwise commonly known as ...

, a pregnancy termination procedure

Other uses

* Aspiration, removal of a liquid or gas by means of

suction Suction is the day-to-day term for the movement of gases or liquids along a pressure gradient with the implication that the movement occurs because the lower pressure pulls the gas or liquid. However, the forces acting in this case do not orig ...

* Aspiration, Inc., a personal finance company * Aspiration management, an individual's need to meet realistic goals, receive feedback and experience a sense of accomplishment * "Aspirations", a song by Gentle Giant on their album ''

The Power and the Glory ''The Power and the Glory'' is a 1940 novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen." ...

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Naturally aspirated engine A naturally aspirated engine, also known as a normally aspirated engine, and abbreviated to N/A or NA, is an internal combustion engine in which air intake depends solely on atmospheric pressure and does not have forced induction through a turboc ...

, an internal combustion engine that relies on atmospheric pressure for air intake without a supercharger or turbocharger * ''Aspiration'' (album)

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