The act of breathing with the LUNGS, consisting of INHALATION, or the taking into the lungs of the ambient air, and of EXHALATION, or the expelling of the modified air which contains more CARBON DIOXIDE than the air taken in (Blakiston's Gould Medical Dictionary, 4th ed.). This does not include tissue respiration (= OXYGEN CONSUMPTION) or cell respiration (= CELL RESPIRATION).
    

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Internal structure of the lungs, 3D printed plastic

Opuscula sua anatomica, de respiratione, de monstris aliaque minora / recensuit, emendavid auxit aliaque inedita novasque icones addidit Albertus v. Haller.

Human bronchus, hyperplasia of goblet cells. SEM

Bronchus, goblet cell hyperplasia, SEM

The regulation of the lung-ventilation : [extracts] / by J.S. Haldane and J.G. Priestley.

Respirationis Swammerdammianae exspiratio. Una cum anatomia neologices Joannis de Raei ... Quibus adjecta est utriusque philosophiae clavis, et mirabilis de carbonum, arenarum, et lapillorum excretione per alvum et vesicam, urinaeque vomitu historia ... / Auctore Joh. Baptista à Lamzweerde.

The regulation of respiration / by Robert Gesell and Alrick B. Hertzman.

Respiration in health and disease / J.F. Halls Dally.

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The regulation of the lung-ventilation : [extracts] / by J.S. Haldane and J.G. Priestley.

Respirationis Swammerdammianae exspiratio. Una cum anatomia neologices Joannis de Raei ... Quibus adjecta est utriusque philosophiae clavis, et mirabilis de carbonum, arenarum, et lapillorum excretione per alvum et vesicam, urinaeque vomitu historia ... / Auctore Joh. Baptista à Lamzweerde.

The regulation of respiration / by Robert Gesell and Alrick B. Hertzman.

Respiration in health and disease / J.F. Halls Dally.

Internal structure of the lungs, 3D printed plastic