How to Use respiration in a Sentence
respiration
noun- The doctor checked his heartbeat and respiration.
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Keep an eye on your heart rate, respiration, stress, and sleep all in one place.
— Kegan Mooney, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2024 -
His blood pressure went through the roof, his respirations were heavy and fast.
— Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2020 -
Fentanyl kills by shutting down the part of the brain that controls respiration.
— Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021 -
The goal, no matter your fitness level, is to get more out of each respiration.
— Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017 -
The Vívosmart 5 can track heart rate, blood oxygen levels, stress, and respiration rates throughout the day and night.
— Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022 -
Young people and athletes tend to have stronger hearts and can survive longer with low respiration rates.
— Lisa M. Krieger, Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020 -
The Vivoactive 4 can record your heart rate, sleep data, blood oxygen, and respiration, and it can all be synced to Garmin's Connect app.
— Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2022 -
And the pneumograph, a device that measures the force of respiration.
— Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 Mar. 2018 -
Chartis is used to screen out patients who have this end-run respiration.
— Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 22 May 2018 -
There seemed to be no getting around the fact that the drugs used to control shivering also stop respiration.
— Brendan I. Koerner, WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022 -
From there, Gorgutsa and his team worked to create a T-shirt that can monitor heart rate and respiration.
— NBC News, 6 June 2017 -
Now fatal opioid overdoses, which can slow respiration to the point that the brain is starved of oxygen, are a growing part of that list.
— Ted Alcorn, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018 -
When a brain goes without oxygen for too long, the part of the brain that helps with respiration can stop working and prevent a person from breathing.
— Pete Muntean, CNN, 6 June 2023 -
Like fish or humans, corals take in oxygen and emit carbon dioxide through a process of respiration.
— Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2017 -
During respiration, the hyoid is what keeps the airway open.
— Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2019 -
But root respiration tends to track growth, giving a snapshot.
— Arkansas Online, 6 July 2021 -
The team was able to use its biofilm to power a small LCD screen and sensors measuring strain, pulse, respiration, and glucose, although not all at once.
— Miriam Fauzia, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2022 -
Cows such as Number 2945, who is standing in the middle of one of Cornell’s new respiration chambers.
— Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 July 2024 -
Signs of heat stress include open-mouth breathing, drooling and more rapid respiration.
— Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2019 -
Eldridge questioned Moseng as to whether Floyd was alert, able to walk, obeyed commands, and whether his respiration and pulse rates were normal, which Moseng wrote in his health report.
— NBC News, 13 Apr. 2021 -
The team also found damage to the medulla, which controls respiration and movement.
— Sharon Guynup, Science, 29 Dec. 2021 -
From a technical perspective, the robot will need to adapt to a human’s rhythms of respiration.
— Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022 -
Researchers have found that iron and aluminum on fish gills hinder respiration.
— Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023 -
Researchers have found that iron and aluminum on fish gills hinder respiration.
— Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024 -
Life-forms here would need to have evolved without the need for oxygen—and human-like visitors would need some type of space suit for protection and respiration.
— WIRED, 3 Feb. 2023 -
Squids do not have blowholes but do have siphons, which look similar and are involved in the animal's respiration process.
— Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2023 -
The scraps that remain are discarded as part of respiration, in the outgoing carbon dioxide, or in urine.
— David Prologo, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2018 -
After a fear episode, for example, the body’s powerful, life-saving threat response must be terminated to restore resting heartbeat, respiration, blood flow and the rest.
— R. Douglas Fields, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024 -
After a fear episode, for example, the body’s powerful, life-saving threat response must be terminated to restore resting heartbeat, respiration, blood flow, and the rest.
— R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
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