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Respiration may refer to:

Biology

  • Cellular respiration, the process in which nutrients are converted into useful energy in a cell
    • Anaerobic respiration, cellular respiration without oxygen
    • Maintenance respiration, the amount of cellular respiration required for an organism to maintain itself in a constant state
  • Respiration (physiology), transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide between cells and the external environment
    • Respiratory system, the anatomical system of an organism used for respiration
    • Breathing, passing air in and out through respiratory organs
    • Aquatic respiration, animals extracting oxygen from water
    • Artificial respiration, the act of simulating respiration, which provides for the overall exchange of gases in the body by pulmonary ventilation, external respiration and internal respiration
    • Cheyne–Stokes respiration, an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by progressively deeper and sometimes faster breathing, followed by a gradual decrease that results in a temporary stop in breathing called an apnea
  • Respiration, a journal by Karger Publishers

Ecology

  • Carbon respiration, a concept used in calculating carbon (as CO
    2
    ) flux occurring in the atmosphere
  • Ecosystem respiration, measurement of gross carbon dioxide production by all organisms in an ecosystem
  • Root respiration, exchange of gases between plant roots and the atmosphere
  • Photorespiration, enzymatic combination of RuBP with oxygen

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