Respiration (physiology): Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

In physiology, respiration is the process of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between an organism and its external environment (breathing).

There are several ways to dichotomize the physiology of respiration:

By species

• Aquatic respiration

• Gas exchange
• Arterial blood gas
• Control of respiration
• Apnea

• Huff and Puff Apparatus
• Respirometer
• Bell jar model lung

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Myasthenia gravis
• Asthma
• Drowning
• Choking
• Dyspnea
• Anaphylaxis
• Pneumonia
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome
• Aspiration (medicine) - Pulmonary Edema

• Bronchodilator
• Asthma medication

• CPR
• Mechanical ventilation
• Intubation
• Iron lung
• Intensive care medicine
• Liquid breathing
• ECMO
• Oxygen toxicity
• Medical ventilator
• Paramedic
• Life support
• General anaesthesia
• Bronchoscopy
• Laryngoscope

• Respiratory therapy
• Breathing gases
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Hypoxia
• Gas embolism
• Decompression sickness
• Barotrauma
• Oxygen toxicity
• Nitrogen narcosis
• Carbon dioxide poisoning
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• HPNS
• Salt water aspiration syndrome