Respiration vs Circulation - What's the difference?
respiration | circulation |
The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
An act of breathing; a breath.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 76:
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.
(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.
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
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Noun
(en noun)- Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.
