NOUN
- the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
How To Use external respiration In A Sentence
- In mammals, external respiration - the ventilation of the lungs - is achieved by breathing, the mechanical basis of respiration: the terms are sometimes used synonymously.
- Sophisticated and accurate methods of analysing respiratory gases were developed in the twentieth century, and the mechanisms of external respiration are now well defined.
- External respiration is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs.
- The breathing of human beings is one form of respiration, called external respiration.
