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Respiration vs Excreation - What's the difference?

respiration | excreation |

As nouns the difference between respiration and excreation

is that respiration is the process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath while excreation is (obsolete) the act of spitting out.

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

    excreation

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) The act of spitting out.
    • (Cockeram)
    (Webster 1913)