respirations's Usage Examples:

The breathing becomes very hurried - forty to sixty respirations in the minute - and the face dusky.

Skin color is related to the newborn's ability to oxygenate its body and extremities and is dependent on heart rate and respirations.

Narcotic analgesics should be used with care when taken in combination with drugs that inhibit respirations, such as the benzodiazepines.

If pneumonia is present, a rapid rate of respiration may be noted; tachypnea is defined as a respiratory rate over 50 respirations per minute in infants younger than one year.

The patient is quite unconscious, the eyes are motionless, the pupils dilated, the skin cold and moist, the limbs relaxed, the pulse is slow and barely perceptible, the respirations very slow and convulsive.

Synonyms:

metabolism, cellular respiration, internal respiration, metabolic process,

Antonyms:

peristalsis, anastalsis, breathless, birth, beginning,