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n. The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing. Also called ventilation.

n. The act or process by which an organism without lungs, such as a fish or plant, exchanges gases with its environment.

n. The oxidative process occurring within living cells by which the chemical energy of organic molecules is released in a series of metabolic steps involving the consumption of oxygen and the liberation of carbon dioxide and water.

n. Any of various analogous metabolic processes by which certain organisms, such as fungi and anaerobic bacteria, obtain energy from organic molecules.

n. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.

n. An act of breathing; a breath.

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

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

n. The act of respiring or breathing again, or catching one's breath.

n. Relief from toil or suffering: rest.

n. Interval; intermission.

n. 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.

n. The act of breathing again or resuming life.

n. The inspiration and expiration of air.

n. That function by which there takes place an absorption of oxygen from the surrounding medium into the blood with a corresponding excretion of carbon dioxid.

n. In physiological bot., a process consisting in the absorption by plants of oxygen from the air, the oxidation of assimilated products, and the release of carbon dioxid and watery vapor.

n. The respiratory murmur.

n. A breathing-spell; an interval.

n. 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

n. the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

n. a single complete act of breathing in and out

"Even the girl's breathing was poorly acted, and that's the first time I have seen a failure in "respiration" acting."

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