Associations to the word «Respiration»

Wiktionary

RESPIRATION, noun. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
RESPIRATION, noun. An act of breathing; a breath.
RESPIRATION, noun. Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
RESPIRATION, noun. The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

Dictionary definition

RESPIRATION, noun. The metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; 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.
RESPIRATION, noun. A single complete act of breathing in and out; "thirty respirations per minute".
RESPIRATION, noun. The bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation.

Wise words

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.