Definition of breathing

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Breathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breath.

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Opisthopulmonate :: Opisthopulmonate (a.) Having the pulmonary sac situated posteriorly; -- said of certain air-breathing Mollusca.
Aspiration :: Aspiration (n.) The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.
Pupa :: Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Planorbis :: Planorbis (n.) Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form..
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Exercising; promotion of respiration.
Wind-broken :: Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse..
Inspiration :: Inspiration (n.) The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration..
Inspire :: Inspire (v. t.) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire.
Expiring :: Expiring (a.) Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.
Opisthobranchiata :: Opisthobranchiata (n. pl.) A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs..
Reptilia :: Reptilia (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds..
Heave :: Heave (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like..
Lim Naea :: Lim naea (n.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail..
Spiroylic :: Spiroscope (n.) A wet meter used to determine the breathing capacity of the lungs.
Air Bladder :: Air bladder () An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus..
Mill :: Mill (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
Stoma :: Stoma (n.) The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells..
Spire :: Spiration (n.) The act of breathing.
Lene :: Lene (n.) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
Eupnaea :: Eupnaea (n.) Normal breathing where arterialization of the blood is normal, in distinction from dyspnaea, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized..
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