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Respiration
Distinct from cell or tissue respiration, Respiration is the act of breathing with the lungs and consists of inspiration, or taking ambient air into the lungs, and expiration, or expelling modified air that contains more carbon dioxide than the air taken in. (NCI Thesaurus)
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