EXTERNAL RESPIRATION


Meaning of EXTERNAL RESPIRATION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1940

: exchange of gases between the external environment and a distributing system of the animal body (as the lungs of higher vertebrates or the tracheal tubes of insects) or between the alveoli of the lungs and the blood — compare internal respiration

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