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Definition of Respiration

1. 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.

2. Noun. A single complete act of breathing in and out. "Thirty respirations per minute"

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

Definition of Respiration

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

Definition of Respiration

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Medical Definition of Respiration

1. Term used by physiologists to describe the process of breathing and by biochemists to describe the intracellular oxidation of substrates coupled with production of ATP and oxidized coenzymes (NAD and FAD). This form of respiration may be anaerobic as in glycolysis or aerobic in the case of oxidations operating via the tricarboxylic acid cycle and the electron transport chain. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Respiration

respectively respectiveness respects respect to respell respelled respelling respellings respells respelt

Respighi respirable respirable respirable aerosols respiration (current term) respiration (current term) respirations respiration disorders respiration rate respirator

respirator respirators respiratory respiratory respiratory acidosis respiratory acidosis respiratory airway respiratory alkalosis respiratory alkalosis respiratory apparatus

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