respiration

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The process of inhaling and exhaling. uncountable
    — In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; […]
  2. An act of breathing: a single breath. countable
    — Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.
  3. Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment. countable,uncountable
  4. The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide. countable,uncountable
    — Near-synonym: metabolism

词形变化

respirations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
abdominal respiration agonal respiration artificial respiration ataxic respiration Biot's respiration cellular respiration chlororespiration cluster respiration Kussmaul respiration photorespiration respirational
相关词
respire circulatory system pulmonary circulation

词源

From Middle English respiracioun, borrowed from Latin respīrātiō, respīrātiōnem.
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