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noun. The action or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing.

noun. An act of inhaling and exhaling; a breath.

noun. The action or process by which an organism without lungs, such as a fish or plant, exchanges gases with its environment.

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noun. The oxidative process occurring within living cells by which the chemical energy of organic molecules is converted in a series of metabolic steps into usable energy in the form of ATP, involving the consumption of oxygen and the production of carbon dioxide and water as byproducts.

noun. Any of various analogous metabolic processes by which certain organisms, such as anaerobic bacteria and some fungi, obtain energy from organic molecules without consuming oxygen.

noun. The act of breathing again or resuming life.

noun. The inspiration and expiration of air.

noun. That function by which there takes place an absorption of oxygen from the surrounding medium into the blood with a corresponding excretion of carbon dioxid.

noun. In physiological bot., a process consisting in the absorption by plants of oxygen from the air, the oxidation of assimilated products, and the release of carbon dioxid and watery vapor.

noun. The respiratory murmur.

noun. A breathing-spell; an interval.

noun. The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.

noun. Relief from toil or suffering: rest.

noun. Interval; intermission.

noun. The act of resping or breathing; the act of taking in and giving out air; the aggregate of those processes bu which oxygen is introduced into the system, and carbon dioxide, or carbonic acid, removed.

noun. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.

noun. An act of breathing; a breath.

noun. Any similar process, in organisms that lack lungs, that exchanges gases with its environment.

noun. The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

noun. the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs

noun. the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

noun. a single complete act of breathing in and out

"The term respiration is frequently restricted to the mere inhalation and expiration of air from the lungs, but more generally it is employed to designate the whole series of phenomena which occur in these organs."

abdominal respiration  amphoric respiration  anal respiration  artificial respiration  biot's respiration  

artificial respiration  

activity  bodily function  bodily process  body process  metabolic process  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

absorption  assimilation  breathe  circulation  combustion  

Aqua-Lung  artificial respiration  aspiration  asthmatic wheeze  breat