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Respiration vs Circulation - What's the difference?

respiration | circulation |

As nouns the difference between respiration and circulation

is that respiration is the process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath while circulation is (senseid)the act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

respiration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
  • An act of breathing; a breath.
  • * 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 76:
  • Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.
  • Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
  • The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.
  • Derived terms

    * artificial respiration

    circulation

    English

    Noun

  • (senseid)The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
  • The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
  • Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
  • The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
  • (senseid)The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.