Respiration

//ɹɛspɪˈɹeɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of inhaling and exhaling. uncountable

    "In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; […]"

  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    An act of breathing: a single breath. countable

    "Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again."

  4. 4
    the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation wordnet
  5. 5
    Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    a single complete act of breathing in and out wordnet
  2. 7
    The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide. countable, uncountable

    "Near-synonym: metabolism"

Etymology

From Middle English respiracioun, borrowed from Latin respīrātiō, respīrātiōnem.

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