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Definition of Respiratory organ

1. Noun. Any organ involved in the process of respiration.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Respiratory Organ

Literary usage of Respiratory organ

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"In the lower animals, there is neither circulating system or distinct respiratory organ. The first or lowest animal respiratory organ is ..."

2. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1850)
"The first or lowest animal respiratory organ is merely a few prolongations of the ... In fish, we first find the mouth connected with the respiratory organ. ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Whatever form or position the respiratory organ may assume, ... No organ may be spoken of as a respiratory organ which has not this vascular apparatus. ..."

4. Elements of Physiology by Joh. Müller (1843)
"In the third kind of respiratory organ, the increase of surface for the contact of the air and the animal textures is obtained by the development of a ..."

5. On Mammalian Descent; the Hunterian Lectures for 1884: Being Nine Lectures by William Kitchen Parker (1885)
"The lining of the pharynx, or upper part of the gullet, is the proper normal respiratory organ of any creature possessed of a notochord, or primary spinal ..."

6. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"Such a respiratory organ is brought into existence in the most anterior portion ... Another form of respiratory organ is developed from the wall of the gut, ..."

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