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What is the adjective for respiration?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs respire and respirate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

respirable
  1. (of air) breathable
  2. (of an organism) capable of respiration
  3. Examples:
    1. “Proper filter selection is essential, including low airflow resistance and efficient retention of respirable particles.”
      “More importantly, investigators have found that airborne Stachybotrys spores are highly respirable, and they contain trichothecene mycotoxins.”
      “The invention relates to a system for administering a respirable gas, particularly at a pressure level lying above the ambient pressure.”
respirophasic
  1. Relating to the phase of the respiratory cycle
respiratory
  1. Relating to respiration; breathing.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “While sleeping, one's respiratory system undergoes a profound restorative process.”
      “The most common signs are muscle wastage, diarrhoea and respiratory distress in pigs aged between six and 14 weeks.”
      “She had the respiratory distress and metabolic acidosis of severe malaria, and needed blood urgently.”
respirative
  1. Of or pertaining to respiration.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The respirative system is responsible for oxygen intake and carbon dioxide release in the human body.”
      “According to president Ed Snodgrass, these plants provide maximum groundcover, water retention, erosion resistance, and respirative transpiration of moisture.”
respirational
  1. Of or pertaining to respiration.
respirometric
  1. Relating to respirometry.
  2. Examples:
    1. “For comparison, respirometric data were also obtained from Nyctalus noctula, a hibernating vespertilionid bat of similar body size and convergent foraging habits.”
      “The ability of bacterial consortium to mineralise 1,4 dioxane was studied by the respirometric experiments.”
      “Tenders are invited for purchase of instrumentsbod trak ii respirometric bod apparatus and phosphax sc analyser for the environmental engineering laboratory.”
respired
respiring
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