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

To breathe

An act of inhaling and exhaling; a breath.

To sigh.

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

The act of breathing, not necessarily for a sustained period (compare respiration, which is sustained).

The oxidative process occurring within living cells by which the chemical energy of organic molecules is converted in a series of metabolic steps into usable energy in the form of ATP, involving the consumption of oxygen and the production of carbon dioxide and water as byproducts.

The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh.

Any of various analogous metabolic processes by which certain organisms, such as anaerobic bacteria and some fungi, obtain energy from organic molecules without consuming oxygen.

An utterance made by exhaling audibly

The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.

An act of breathing; a breath.

Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.

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

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

Relief from toil or suffering: rest.

Interval; intermission.

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.

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 lungs

A single complete act of breathing in and out;

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