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respiration   (TTS Sound)

The noun respiration has 3 senses

• respiration, internal respiration, cellular respiration -- (the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; 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)


• respiration -- (a single complete act of breathing in and out; "thirty respirations per minute")


• breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation -- (the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation)