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Respiration (physiology)
Respiration is the process of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between an organism and its external environment (breathing). There are several ways to dichotomize the physiology of respiration:
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By species
By mechanism
By experiments
- Huff and Puff Apparatus
- Respirometer
- SIFT-MS Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry
- Bell jar model lung
By disorders and emergencies
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Myasthenia gravis
- Asthma
- Drowning
- Choking
- Dyspnea
- Anaphylaxis
- Pneumonia
- Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- Aspiration (medicine) - Pulmonary Edema
By medication
By intensive care and emergency medicine
- CPR
- Mechanical ventilation
- Intubation
- Iron lung
- Intensive care medicine
- Liquid breathing
- ECMO
- Oxygen toxicity
- Medical ventilator
- Paramedic
- Life support
- General anaesthesia
- Bronchoscopy
- Laryngoscope
By other medical topics
- Respiratory therapy
- Breathing gases
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Hypoxia
- Gas embolism
- Decompression sickness
- Barotrauma
- Oxygen toxicity
- Nitrogen narcosis
- Carbon dioxide poisoning
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- HPNS
- Salt water aspiration syndrome
See also
Last updated: 08-04-2005 19:33:26
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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