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Respire meaning
To breathe in and out successively. | To breathe in and out successively. | To recover one's breath or breathe easily following stress.
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Because it’s a new year, there are so many inspire-to-respire-then-expire talks out there.
This allows it to respire through its skin—absorbing oxygen from the water—while also minimizing water loss.
As well as breathing with lungs, they respire through the many folds in their thin skin, which has capillaries close to the surface. citation The suborder Salamandroidea contains the advanced salamanders.
At birth however, air begins to pass through the lungs, and the diversionary duct closes, so that the lungs can begin to respire.
Gas exchange can take place through the skin ( cutaneous respiration ) and this allows adult amphibians to respire without rising to the surface of water and to hibernate at the bottom of ponds.
In the Amphiumas, metamorphosis is incomplete, and they retain one pair of gill slits as adults, with fully functioning internal gills. citation Some species that lack lungs respire through gills.
Many microscopic aquatic animals, and some larger but inactive ones, can absorb adequate oxygen through the entire surface of their bodies, and so can respire adequately without a gill.
Other species can respire through their skin, intestines, and/or stomach.sfn Osteichthyes are primitively ectothermic (cold blooded), meaning that their body temperature is dependent on that of the water.
Pressure Climatic and osmotic pressure places physiological constraints on organisms, especially those that fly and respire at high altitudes, or dive to deep ocean depths.
Small-bodied invertebrates of aquatic or continually moist habitats respire using the outer layer (integument).
Stebbins & Cohen (1995) pp. 76–77 Salamanders need moist environments to respire through their skin.
The oceans would then be rich in nutrients essential to photosynthetic organisms, which would then be able to respire mass amounts of oxygen.
The turtles can take up dissolved oxygen from the water using these papillae, in much the same way that fish use gills to respire.
They are heterotrophs that normally respire by aerobic means.