Respiration
noun
It means to inhale and exhale; the act of breathing.
The doctor said his respiration is normal after checking his breathing with a stethoscope.
Often appears as...
- normal respiration
- artificial respiration
noun
It's a process in plants and animals by which oxygen is used to produce energy from food, and carbon dioxide is released.
Cellular respiration is a vital process for the survival of all living organisms.
Often appears as...
- cellular respiration
- plant respiration
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Academic
noun
It can also mean the rate of breathing.
After running a race, her respiration was much faster than normal.
Often appears as...
- rapid respiration
- slow respiration
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Technical
noun
It means to inhale and exhale; the act of breathing.
The doctor said his respiration is normal after checking his breathing with a stethoscope.
Often appears as...
- normal respiration
- artificial respiration
noun
It's a process in plants and animals by which oxygen is used to produce energy from food, and carbon dioxide is released.
Cellular respiration is a vital process for the survival of all living organisms.
Often appears as...
- cellular respiration
- plant respiration
Usage tips
Academic
noun
It can also mean the rate of breathing.
After running a race, her respiration was much faster than normal.
Often appears as...
- rapid respiration
- slow respiration
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used to describe the physical movement involved in breathing.
He focused on his respiration while meditating.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Indicator
Refers to breathing as a vital sign checked by medical professionals.
The paramedics monitored her respiration closely.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Expression
Often used in everyday language to discuss breathing normally or when ill.
His cold is bad, but his respiration is unaffected.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used to describe the physical movement involved in breathing.
He focused on his respiration while meditating.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Indicator
Refers to breathing as a vital sign checked by medical professionals.
The paramedics monitored her respiration closely.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Expression
Often used in everyday language to discuss breathing normally or when ill.
His cold is bad, but his respiration is unaffected.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Action
Used to describe the physical movement involved in breathing.
He focused on his respiration while meditating.
Pro Tip 2/3Health Indicator
Refers to breathing as a vital sign checked by medical professionals.
The paramedics monitored her respiration closely.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Expression
Often used in everyday language to discuss breathing normally or when ill.
His cold is bad, but his respiration is unaffected.
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Eric Topol: The wireless...
Below that's the actual heart rate and the trend; to the right of that is a bioconductant. That's the fluid status, fluid status, that's really important if you're monitoring somebody with heart failure. And below that's temperature, and respiration, and oxygen, and then the position activity.
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The psychology of...
to help regulate functions like heart rate, digestion, and respiration. These signals start a chemical cascade that floods the body with several different stress hormones, causing physiological changes that prepare the body to defend itself. Our heart rate speeds up, breathing quickens,
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Your words may predict...
or a few years from now. And in the same way many of us are now wearing sensors that detect our heart rate, our respiration, our genes, on the hopes that this may help us prevent diseases, we can ask whether monitoring and analyzing the words we speak, we tweet, we email, we write,
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The benefits of a good...
Sleep isn't lost time, or just a way to rest when all our important work is done. Instead, it's a critical function, during which your body balances and regulates its vital systems, affecting respiration and regulating everything from circulation to growth and immune response.
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Pythons 101 PIPE National...
Pythons' long bodies help the reptiles kill by way of constriction. They wrap their bodies around prey and every time the prey exhales, the python squeezes more tightly. This disrupts the prey's respiration and blood flow inevitably leading to its death.
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A campaign for period...
if each one of you conveys this message to every person you know. When we can discuss digestion, blood circulation and respiration -- all natural, biological processes -- why should menstruation be off-limits? And you, too, can help make it less taboo,
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Oxygen’s surprisingly...
Your vital organs, the gut, brain, bones, lungs, blood, and heart work together to sustain your life by delivering oxygen to tissues throughout your body. Most of our cells need oxygen because it's one of the key ingredients of aerobic respiration.
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A guide to the energy of...
Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use sunlight to produce organic matter from carbon dioxide and water, powering the biosphere's food chains. We release this food energy using chemical reactions, like combustion and respiration.
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Why do we sweat? - John...
In that case, sweating happens as a response to movement triggered deep inside your cells. As you increase your pace, your muscles work harder, increasing their demand for energy. A process called cellular respiration
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Why do we hiccup? - John...
is almost identical to that responsible for respiration in amphibians. Another group of scientists believe that the reflex is retained in us today because it actually provides an important advantage.
Video examples
Eric Topol: The wireless...
Below that's the actual heart rate and the trend; to the right of that is a bioconductant. That's the fluid status, fluid status, that's really important if you're monitoring somebody with heart failure. And below that's temperature, and respiration, and oxygen, and then the position activity.
Video examples
The psychology of...
to help regulate functions like heart rate, digestion, and respiration. These signals start a chemical cascade that floods the body with several different stress hormones, causing physiological changes that prepare the body to defend itself. Our heart rate speeds up, breathing quickens,
Video examples
Your words may predict...
or a few years from now. And in the same way many of us are now wearing sensors that detect our heart rate, our respiration, our genes, on the hopes that this may help us prevent diseases, we can ask whether monitoring and analyzing the words we speak, we tweet, we email, we write,
Video examples
The benefits of a good...
Sleep isn't lost time, or just a way to rest when all our important work is done. Instead, it's a critical function, during which your body balances and regulates its vital systems, affecting respiration and regulating everything from circulation to growth and immune response.
Video examples
Pythons 101 PIPE National...
Pythons' long bodies help the reptiles kill by way of constriction. They wrap their bodies around prey and every time the prey exhales, the python squeezes more tightly. This disrupts the prey's respiration and blood flow inevitably leading to its death.
Video examples
A campaign for period...
if each one of you conveys this message to every person you know. When we can discuss digestion, blood circulation and respiration -- all natural, biological processes -- why should menstruation be off-limits? And you, too, can help make it less taboo,
Video examples
Oxygen’s surprisingly...
Your vital organs, the gut, brain, bones, lungs, blood, and heart work together to sustain your life by delivering oxygen to tissues throughout your body. Most of our cells need oxygen because it's one of the key ingredients of aerobic respiration.
Video examples
A guide to the energy of...
Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use sunlight to produce organic matter from carbon dioxide and water, powering the biosphere's food chains. We release this food energy using chemical reactions, like combustion and respiration.
Video examples
Why do we sweat? - John...
In that case, sweating happens as a response to movement triggered deep inside your cells. As you increase your pace, your muscles work harder, increasing their demand for energy. A process called cellular respiration
Video examples
Why do we hiccup? - John...
is almost identical to that responsible for respiration in amphibians. Another group of scientists believe that the reflex is retained in us today because it actually provides an important advantage.
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Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.
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Lyall Watson
South African Scientist
Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.
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Peter A. Levine
American Psychologist
Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
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August Krogh
Danish Scientist
It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.
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Barton Gellman
American Journalist
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
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Otto Heinrich Warburg
German Scientist
The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
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Umberto Eco
Italian Novelist
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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Archibald Hill
English Psychologist
One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
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Steve King
American Politician
But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
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Anthony Burgess
English Novelist
He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
Quote examples
Jeffrey Kluger
American Writer
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.
Quote examples
Lyall Watson
South African Scientist
Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.
Quote examples
Peter A. Levine
American Psychologist
Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
Quote examples
August Krogh
Danish Scientist
It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.
Quote examples
Barton Gellman
American Journalist
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
Quote examples
Otto Heinrich Warburg
German Scientist
The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
Quote examples
Umberto Eco
Italian Novelist
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
Quote examples
Archibald Hill
English Psychologist
One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
Quote examples
Steve King
American Politician
But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.
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Anthony Burgess
English Novelist
He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
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