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Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Respiration

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Respiration  

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  • Breathing

Note

  • lung only: does not refer to tissue respiration (= probably OXYGEN CONSUMPTION); CELL RESPIRATION is also available

Scope note

  • The act of breathing with the LUNGS, consisting of INHALATION, or the taking into the lungs of the ambient air, and of EXHALATION, or the expelling of the modified air which contains more CARBON DIOXIDE than the air taken in (Blakiston's Gould Medical Dictionary, 4th ed.). This does not include tissue respiration (= OXYGEN CONSUMPTION) or cell respiration (= CELL RESPIRATION).

In other languages

  • hengitys

    Finnish

  • hengittäminen
  • respiraatio
  • respiratio
  • Andning

    Swedish

  • Respiration

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012119

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