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respiratory, a.|rɪˈspaɪərətərɪ, ˈrɛspɪrətərɪ|
[ad. mod.L. respīrātōrius, or F. respiratoire (Sp. and It. -orio).]
1. Of, pertaining to, or serving for respiration.
1790Smellie Phil. Nat. Hist. I. 124 The stigmata, or respiratory organs, of caterpillars and other insects. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. iv. (1818) I. 140, I could discover, in this animal, no respiratory plates. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest 425 The respiratory sound became much more perceptible at the roots of the left lung. 1881Mivart Cat 278 The external respiratory nerve of Bell.
2. Special collocations: respiratory centre, a region of the brain which exercises control over respiration; respiratory pigment, a protein molecule with a pigmented prosthetic group, involved in the transfer of oxygen or electrons within living systems; respiratory quotient, the ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide evolved to that of oxygen consumed; respiratory syncytial virus, an RNA virus that causes disease of the respiratory tract; respiratory therapy (U.S.), the management of patients receiving artificial respiration or ventilation and of the apparatus involved; so respiratory therapist, one trained in this; respiratory tract, the passages through which air passes in respiration; respiratory tree, a branched system of respiratory passages.
1883Encycl. Brit. XX. 480/1 The *respiratory centre must be regarded as the seat of origin of the impulses which cause the muscular movements of inspiration and expiration. 1948A. Brodal Neurol. Anat. xi. 391 The existence of a respiratory centre is generally admitted in the medulla.
1896Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXXIX. 3 A *respiratory pigment of a kind unusual in the Chætopoda. 1933Biol. Bull. LXIV. 233 In several of the invertebrates also, respiratory pigments, either hemoglobin or hemerythrin, are found within special cells of the circulating blood or body fluids. 1968Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. viii. 7/1 Cytochromes. These are respiratory pigments found in all cells.
1890Billings Med. Dict. II. 453/1 *Respiratory quotient, the relation of the inspired free oxygen to that expired in the form of carbonic acid. 1900W. S. Hall Text-bk. Physiol. iv. 218 The respiratory quotient varies considerably in different species, and in the same animal under different conditions. 1968Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxxi. 7/1 Ketosis is associated with a low respiratory quotient (RQ), below 0·75, which reflects a predominance of fat metabolism.
1961New Eng. Jrnl. Med. CCLXIV. 1174/1 The present report presents convincing evidence for the etiologic role of the *respiratory syncytial virus in acute respiratory illnesses among children. 1968New Scientist 15 Feb. 368/1 Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is now the most dangerous of the respiratory pathogens that affect young children.
1965P. Safar (title) *Respiratory therapy. 1973D. A. Holaday in Caldwell & Moya Adv. Respiratory Care & Physiol. vi. 85 Their duties include..administration of other categories of respiratory therapy to patients in intensive care units, post-anesthesia recovery rooms, and other areas..where continuous ventilators are in use. 1974Tyler & Nett in T. L. Petty Intensive & Rehabilitative Respiratory Care (ed. 2) vi. 79 The patient with acute respiratory failure is being cared for by both nursing and respiratory therapy staffs.
Ibid. 98 The nurse, *respiratory therapist, and, where available, the physical therapist have vital roles in the successful care of any patient from the onset of acute illness throughout the convalescent and rehabilitative phases. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. (Parade Suppl.) 5/3 Alice Gaul, a former U.S. Navy nurse, and Mary Masal, a respiratory therapist, managed to keep that man alive through the eight-hour flight.
1936Discovery July 206/2 It has not appeared to produce the usual irritative effects of ether on the *respiratory tract. 1977Chest LXXI. 346/1 Aerosol topical anesthesia for instrumentation of the respiratory tract was first described in 1949.
1932Borradaile & Potts Invertebrata xviii. 575 Finally there is a short, wide cloaca. Into the latter usually open two long, branched *respiratory trees, whose ramifications end in thin-walled ampullae through which water, when pumped in by contractions of the cloaca, passes into the body cavity, carrying oxygen to the coelomic fluid, and so to the organs. 1970W. H. Parker Health & Dis. in Farm Animals iii. 35 The respiratory tree is an apt phrase used to describe the continuous sub⁓division of the bronchi. |