How to Use respiration in a Sentence

respiration

noun
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  • The doctor checked his heartbeat and respiration.
  • Keep an eye on your heart rate, respiration, stress, and sleep all in one place.
    — Kegan Mooney, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2024
  • His blood pressure went through the roof, his respirations were heavy and fast.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2020
  • Fentanyl kills by shutting down the part of the brain that controls respiration.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The goal, no matter your fitness level, is to get more out of each respiration.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The Vívosmart 5 can track heart rate, blood oxygen levels, stress, and respiration rates throughout the day and night.
    — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Young people and athletes tend to have stronger hearts and can survive longer with low respiration rates.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The Vivoactive 4 can record your heart rate, sleep data, blood oxygen, and respiration, and it can all be synced to Garmin's Connect app.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2022
  • And the pneumograph, a device that measures the force of respiration.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Chartis is used to screen out patients who have this end-run respiration.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 22 May 2018
  • There seemed to be no getting around the fact that the drugs used to control shivering also stop respiration.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
  • From there, Gorgutsa and his team worked to create a T-shirt that can monitor heart rate and respiration.
    — NBC News, 6 June 2017
  • Now fatal opioid overdoses, which can slow respiration to the point that the brain is starved of oxygen, are a growing part of that list.
    — Ted Alcorn, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
  • When a brain goes without oxygen for too long, the part of the brain that helps with respiration can stop working and prevent a person from breathing.
    — Pete Muntean, CNN, 6 June 2023
  • Like fish or humans, corals take in oxygen and emit carbon dioxide through a process of respiration.
    — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017
  • During respiration, the hyoid is what keeps the airway open.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2019
  • But root respiration tends to track growth, giving a snapshot.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 July 2021
  • The team was able to use its biofilm to power a small LCD screen and sensors measuring strain, pulse, respiration, and glucose, although not all at once.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Signs of heat stress include open-mouth breathing, drooling and more rapid respiration.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Eldridge questioned Moseng as to whether Floyd was alert, able to walk, obeyed commands, and whether his respiration and pulse rates were normal, which Moseng wrote in his health report.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The team also found damage to the medulla, which controls respiration and movement.
    — Sharon Guynup, Science, 29 Dec. 2021
  • From a technical perspective, the robot will need to adapt to a human’s rhythms of respiration.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Researchers have found that iron and aluminum on fish gills hinder respiration.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Life-forms here would need to have evolved without the need for oxygen—and human-like visitors would need some type of space suit for protection and respiration.
    — WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Squids do not have blowholes but do have siphons, which look similar and are involved in the animal's respiration process.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The scraps that remain are discarded as part of respiration, in the outgoing carbon dioxide, or in urine.
    — David Prologo, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2018
  • In fruits and vegetables, oxygen is produced at high respiration rates, which means a shorter shelf life.
    — Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Your neck, shoulders, and chest muscles, along with other secondary respiration muscles, do the work to get the air in and out instead of your diaphragm and other core muscles.
    — Sivan Fagan, SELF, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Sunlight helps both to make food through photosynthesis and respiration, the release said.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 22 May 2024
  • Once in the pre-operative area, your or your child's temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and oxygen are checked.
    — Troy Bedinghaus, Od, Verywell Health, 1 June 2024

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