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Respiration vs Exhalation - What's the difference?

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Respiration is a related term of exhalation.


As nouns the difference between respiration and exhalation

is that respiration is the process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath while exhalation is the act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.

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

    exhalation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation.
  • That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying matter, etc.
  • A bright phenomenon; a meteor.