respiratory system

Questions about respiratory system

What does respiratory system mean?

respiratory system means "the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide; in terrestrial animals this is accomplished by breathing".

What is another word for respiratory system?

Close synonyms include systema respiratorium. 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 respiratory system a common word?

respiratory system 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.