Assertion: yawning | /r/HasProperty | impossible
Facets:
value: nearly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In fact, even when you try to force a yawn, your body has to go along with it otherwise a yawn is nearly impossible - your chest simply will not expand to take in a yawn unless your body is willing.
text: If yawning is impossible, as in a patient on a ventilator, disseminated alveolar collapse may occur; this is the cause of the venoarterial shunting and arterial hypoxemia seen in this situation.