Definition of respiration

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Respiration (n.) The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath..

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Stethoscope :: Stethometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer..
Fainting :: Fainting (n.) Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak..
Sigh :: Sigh (v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing..
Pleurisy :: Pleurisy (n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity..
Cutaneous :: Cutaneous (a.) Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration..
Respiration :: Respiration (n.) Relief from toil or suffering: rest.
Asphyxy :: Asphyxy (n.) Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases..
Amphoric :: Amphoric (a.) Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance..
Abranchiata :: Abranchiata (n. pl.) A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration..
Suspire :: Suspiration (n.) The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh..
Respiration :: Respiration (n.) 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..
Haematogenesis :: Haematogenesis (n.) The transformation of venous arterial blood by respiration; hematosis.
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Exercising; promotion of respiration.
Pneumatometer :: Pneumatometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of force exerted by the lungs in respiration.
Wind :: Wind (n.) Power of respiration; breath.
Diaphragmatic :: Diaphragmatic (a.) Pertaining to a diaphragm; as, diaphragmatic respiration; the diaphragmatic arteries and nerves..
Broken-winded :: Broken-winded (a.) Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse..
Intercostal :: Intercostal (a.) Between the ribs; pertaining to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles..
Expire :: Expire (v. t.) To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
Respirational :: Respirational (a.) Of or pertaining to respiration; as, respirational difficulties..
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