systema respiratorium

Questions about systema respiratorium

What does systema respiratorium mean?

systema respiratorium 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 systema respiratorium?

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

systema respiratorium 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.