respiration
英 [resp?'re??(?)n]
美[,r?sp?'re??n]
英英釋意
- 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
- 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