rate of respiration

1. 1.

   the rate at which a person inhales and exhales; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health

   Synonymsrespiratory rate

   Broadervital signrate

Questions about rate of respiration

What does rate of respiration mean?

rate of respiration means "the rate at which a person inhales and exhales; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health".

What is another word for rate of respiration?

Close synonyms include respiratory rate. 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 rate of respiration a common word?

rate of 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.