RESPIRATORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does respiratory mean? 

• RESPIRATORY (adjective)
  The adjective RESPIRATORY has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to respiration

  Familiarity information: RESPIRATORY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESPIRATORY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pertaining to respiration

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

respiratory assistance

Pertainym:

respiration (the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs)

Derivation:

respire (draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs)

respire (undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide)

respire (breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety)

 Context examples 

They then took mice with normal immune systems and sensitized them with respiratory and food allergens to induce severe allergic reactions leading to anaphylaxis.

(Scientists discover immune cell subtype in mice that drives allergic reactions, National Institutes of Health)

So they can enter the bloodstream and may increase the incidence of respiratory and cardiovascular problems.

(Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air, SciDev.Net)

An agent that exerts a physiologic effect on any anatomic entity that is part of the respiratory tract and airways.

(Agent Affecting Respiratory System, NCI Thesaurus)

Anatomic structures forming the upper respiratory tract and upper part of the digestive tract.

(Aerodigestive tract, NCI Thesaurus)

Cases of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome are not included in this definition.

(Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

The gene may be involved in neurodegeneration and allergic respiratory diseases.

(ADAM8 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Several weeks after birth, the child began experiencing life-threatening respiratory infections, including colds, influenza and bacterial pneumonia.

(Scientists discover rare genetic susceptibility to common cold, National Institutes of Health)

M. flavescens is a commensal organism of the respiratory tract and is not associated with clinical disease.

(Mycobacterium flavescens, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the defense of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts from microorganism infection.

(Mucin-5AC, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientific studies have shown that airborne particles are associated with adverse health effects inducing respiratory diseases, heart ailments, and other problems.

(Airborne Particulate Matter, NCI Thesaurus)