Respiration

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Respiration may refer to:

Biology

• Cellular respiration, the process in which nutrients are converted into useful energy in a cell
  • Anaerobic respiration, cellular respiration without oxygen
  • Maintenance respiration, the amount of cellular respiration required for an organism to maintain itself in a constant state
• Respiration (physiology), transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide between cells and the external environment
  • Respiratory system, the anatomical system of an organism used for respiration
  • Breathing, passing air through respiratory organs
  • Aquatic respiration, animals extracting oxygen from water
  • Artificial respiration, the act of simulating respiration, which provides for the overall exchange of gases in the body by pulmonary ventilation, external respiration and internal respiration
  • Cheyne–Stokes respiration, an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by progressively deeper and sometimes faster breathing, followed by a gradual decrease that results in a temporary stop in breathing called an apnea

Ecology

• Carbon respiration, a concept used in calculating carbon (as CO₂) flux occurring in the atmosphere
• Ecosystem respiration, measurement of gross carbon dioxide production by all organisms in an ecosystem
• Root respiration, exchange of gases between plant roots and the atmosphere
• Photorespiration, enzymatic combination of RuBP with oxygen

Entertainment

• "Respiration" (song), a 1999 single by Black Star
• "Respire" (Mickey 3D song), released in March 2003
• Respire (film), an upcoming French drama film