respiratory quotient

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noun Physiology.

the ratio of the amount of carbon dioxide released by the lungs to the amount of oxygen taken in during a given period.

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Origin of respiratory quotient

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby respiratory quotient

respiratory failure, respiratory lobule, respiratory minute volume, respiratory pause, respiratory pigment, respiratory quotient, respiratory scleroma, respiratory syncytial virus, respiratory system, respiratory therapy, respiratory tract

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How to use respiratory quotient in a sentence

Within six days, however, the infant was admitted to a pediatric hospital with diarrhea, bluish skin, and respiratory failure.
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An average of 200,000 will be sent to the hospital for respiratory and heart conditions illnesses associated with it.
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Here the snake oil quotient is a bit more evident than in the skybox seats occupied by insights made using hard science.
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Adam Lausing, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Michigan, emphasized that Ebola is not a respiratory disease.
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This one, too, will go the way of all respiratory infections and sooner probably than later.
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An increase is also noted in the uric-acid diathesis and in diseases accompanied by respiratory insufficiency.
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It is often present in the respiratory tract under normal conditions.
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When the respiratory elements and fibre have not been separated, the sum of the two is given.
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Owen says that the thymus appears in vertebrates with the establishment of the lung as the main or exclusive respiratory organ.
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Until one stops to think of it, he does not realize the extent of the respiratory muscles.
The Treatment of Hay Fever|George Frederick Laidlaw

British Dictionary definitions for respiratory quotient

respiratory quotient

noun

biology the ratio of the volume of carbon dioxide expired to the volume of oxygen consumed by an organism, tissue, or cell in a given time

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Medical definitions for respiratory quotient

respiratory quotient

The ratio of carbon dioxide produced by tissue metabolism to oxygen consumed in the same metabolism.