external respiration

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbreathingrespirationventilation

   Broaderbodily process

   Narrowerartificial respirationabdominal breathingeupneahyperpneahypopneahyperventilationpantingperiodic breathingsmokesnore

   Partsexhalationinhalation

Questions about external respiration

What does external respiration mean?

external respiration means "the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation".

What is another word for external respiration?

Close synonyms include breathing, respiration, ventilation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is external respiration a common word?

external respiration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.