respiratory quotient

1. 1.

   the ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide expired to the volume of oxygen consumed by an organism or cell in a given period of time

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Questions about respiratory quotient

What does respiratory quotient mean?

respiratory quotient means "the ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide expired to the volume of oxygen consumed by an organism or cell in a given period of time".

Is respiratory quotient a common word?

respiratory quotient 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.