Medical Definition of PNEUMOTAXIC CENTER. : a neural center in the upper part of the pons that provides inhibitory impulses on inspiration and thereby prevents overdistension of the lungs and helps to maintain alternately recurrent inspiration and expiration. a neural center in the upper part of the pons that provides inhibitory impulses on inspiration and thereby prevents overdistension of the lungs and helps to maintain alternately recurrent inspiration and expiration.
Because of their uber-high stability, the noble gases are relatively unreactive. They have very high ionization energies and negligible electronegativities because they have no desire to gain or lose an electron.
Noble gases. The elements in group 0 are called the noble gases. They belong to the right-hand column in the periodic table. The noble gases are all chemically unreactive which means they are inert. The noble gases - Group 0.