Definizione monolingua

respiration

Wikipedia respiration (plural respirations)

1. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
2. An act of breathing; a breath.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 76:

     Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.

3. Any similar process, in organisms that lack lungs, that exchanges gases with its environment.
4. The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

Definizione dizionario respiration

	respirazione
	breathing
	The process in living organisms of taking in oxygen from the surroundings and giving out carbon dioxide. (Source: CED)

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Altri significati:

process of biological energy extraction

The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

Any similar process, in organisms that lack lungs, that exchanges gases with its environment.

An act of breathing; a breath.

The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.