Definition of Respiration

Noun

  • the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation
    the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
    - external respiration
  • a single complete act of breathing in and out
    "thirty respirations per minute"
  • 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
    - internal respiration - cellular respiration
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1518 unscramble word found using the letters respiration.
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