different between respiration vs excreation

English

Etymology

From Middle English respiracioun, borrowed from Latin resp?r?ti?, resp?r?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sp???e???n/
• Hyphenation: res?pi?ra?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

respiration (countable and uncountable, plural respirations)

1. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath.
2. 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.

3. Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
4. The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.

Derived terms

• artificial respiration
• cellular respiration

Related terms

• respire

Translations

See also

• circulatory system
• pulmonary circulation

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin respiratio, respirationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.pi.?a.sj??/

Noun

respiration f (plural respirations)

1. respiration

Related terms

• respirer

Further reading

• “respiration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• piraterions, repaitrions, repaîtrions, repatriions

English

Etymology

From Latin excreatio, exscreatio.

Noun

excreation (countable and uncountable, plural excreations)

1. (obsolete) The act of spitting out.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cockeram to this entry?)

Anagrams

• execration