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respiration

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun respiration has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

respirationn. [L. respiratio: cf. F. respiration. See Respire.].
  •  The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Relief from toil or suffering: rest.  [1913 Webster]
    "Till the day
    Appear of respiration to the just
    And vengeance to the wicked.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Interval; intermission.  Bp. Hall.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

respiration, n.
1 a the act or an instance of breathing. b a single inspiration or expiration; a breath.
2 Biol. in living organisms, the process involving the release of energy and carbon dioxide from the oxidation of complex organic substances.

Etymology
ME f. F respiration or L respiratio (as RESPIRE)

THESAURUS

respiration

Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspiration, asthmatic wheeze, breath, breath of air, breathing, broken wind, cough, exhalation, expiration, exsufflation, gasp, gulp, hack, hiccup, inhalation, inhalator, inspiration, insufflation, iron lung, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, puff, scuba, sigh, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, sternutation, stertor, suspiration, wheeze, wind

ROGET THESAURUS

respiration

Life

N life, vitality, viability, animation, vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit, respiration, wind, breath of life, breath of one's nostrils, oxygen, air, respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung, medical devices, lifeblood, Archeus, existence, vivification, vital force, vitalization, revivification, Prometheus, life to come, physiology, biology, animal ecology, nourishment, staff of life, genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production), microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile, methanogen, archaebacteria, microaerophile, animal, vegetable, artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence, breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature, preservation of life, healing (medicine), living, alive, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated, animative, lively, all alive and kicking, tenacious of life, full of life, yeasty, vital, vitalic, vivifying, vivified viable, zoetic, Promethean, vivendi causa, atqui vivere militare est, non est vivere sed valere vita.

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