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respiration
Noun
  • 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.