respiration

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Middle English respiracioun, from Latin respiratio, from respirare.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• artificial respiration

Translations

breathing

Chinese: 呼吸 hūxī Czech: dýchání (cs) n. Dutch: ademhaling (nl) Finnish: hengitys (fi) French: respiration (fr) f. German: Atmung (de) Greek: αναπνοή (el) (anapnoí) f. Irish: riospráid (ga) f. Italian: respirazione (it) f. Korean: 숨쉬기 (sumswigi)

Kurdish: hanasa (ku) Norwegian: åndedrett (no) n. Portuguese: respiração (pt) f. Russian: дыхание (ru) n. Spanish: respiración (es) Swedish: andning (sv) c., respiration (sv) c. Tagalog: paghinga (tl) Telugu: శ్వాసక్రియ (Svaasakriya) Turkish: solunum (tr) Volapük: natemam (vo)

exchange of gases

German: Veratmung (de) f.

Greek: αναπνοή (el) (anapnoí) f.

process of biological energy extraction

Chinese: Mandarin: 呼吸作用 (zh)

Swedish: cellandning c. Turkish: solunum (tr)

• Vietnamese: Hô hấp

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French

Etymology

From Latin respiratio, from respirare.

Pronunciation

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Noun

respiration f. (plural respirations)

1. respiration

Anagrams

• piraterions, repaitrions, repaîtrions, repatriions