Respiration

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Respiration \Res`pi*ra"tion\ (r?s`p?*r?"sh?n), n. [L.
     respiratio: cf. F. respiration. See {Respire}.]
     1. The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's
        breath.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Relief from toil or suffering: rest. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Till the day
              Appear of respiration to the just
              And vengeance to the wicked.          --Milton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Interval; intermission. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. (Physiol.) 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]
  
     Note: Respiration in the higher animals is divided into:
           ({a}) Internal respiration, or the interchange of
           oxygen and carbonic acid between the cells of the body
           and the bathing them, which in one sense is a process
           of nutrition. ({b}) External respiration, or the
           gaseous interchange taking place in the special
           respiratory organs, the lungs. This constitutes
           respiration proper. --Gamgee.
           [1913 Webster] In the respiration of plants oxygen is
           likewise absorbed and carbonic acid exhaled, but in the
           light this process is obscured by another process which
           goes on with more vigor, in which the plant inhales and
           absorbs carbonic acid and exhales free oxygen.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  respiration
       n 1: the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain
            energy from organic moelcules; processes that take place
            in the cells and tissues during which energy is released
            and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood
            to be transported to the lungs [syn: {internal
            respiration}, {cellular respiration}]
       2: a single complete act of breathing in and out; "thirty
          respirations per minute"
       3: the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process
          of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon
          dioxide by exhalation [syn: {breathing}, {external
          respiration}, {ventilation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  RESPIRATION, Med. jur. Breathing, which consists of the drawing into, 
  inhaling, or more technically, inspiring, atmospheric air into the lungs, 
  and then: forcing out, expelling, or technically expiring, from the lungs 
  the air therein. Chit. Med. Jur. 92 and 416, note n.