单词 | respirant |
释义 | respirantadj.n. A. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [adjective] breathinga1398 spirituala1398 respirative?a1425 breathy1528 spirable1562 spiring1577 respirant?1578 transpirable1578 respiratory1650 respired1667 pneumatic1681 respiring1697 cardiorespiratory1857 respirating1887 ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 68 The sweetnes of sauoour on all sidez, made so respiraunt from the redolent plants & fragrant earbs. 2. That breathes or respires. Now chiefly (of a gas or gases): used in or produced by respiratory gas exchange. ΚΠ 1805 tr. L. Spallanzani & J. Senebier Mem. Respiration 121 I have hitherto only spoken of the consumption of the oxygen gas contained in the atmosphere, by the external surface of the bodies, both of respirant and non-respirant animals. 1838 Inq. Nature & Prospects Adamite Race 7 Hence, it is used also to denote a respirant body, a breathing frame, an animal body. 1947 U.S. Patent 2,420,375 4 A breathing device comprising..a collapsible breathing bag.., a nozzle connectable to a source of respirant gas under pressure. 1974 Chemosphere No. 4. 168 Our initial approach utilized a closed loop arrangement permitting all or a portion of the respirant gases to be continually or periodically pumped through a flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometer. 1992 D. F. Krell Daimon Life xi. 310 That other is the variously shaped yet always inspired and respirant body. 1994 T. R. Crompton in S. Patai Chem. Org. Arsenic, Antimony & Bismuth Compounds v. 200 Parris and coworkers applied this technique to the examination of simulated respirant atmospheres that might be found over a culture of microorganisms methylating arsenic. B. n. 1. A respirable substance; (originally) a food or substrate of cellular aerobic respiration (respiration n. 5); (later) a gas, esp. air. ΚΠ 1857 Home 3 269/1 The fat of meat is the best, and the muscle or lean part the feeblest of all respirants. 1865 E. L. Youmans Hand-bk. Househ. Sci. 382 While the true respirants burn completely, gelatin loads the blood with its incombustible and noxious residues. 1995 U.S. Patent 5,595,173 1 This structure fails to provide a simple and inexpensive means of providing humidified respirant to the user. 2. A person who or thing which breathes or respires. ΚΠ 1857 Trans. Bombay Geogr. Soc. 1856–7 13 9 Are they respirants drawing vital air either from the water on which they float? 1859 Congregational Q. Oct. 372/1 That [air] which is breathed in so warm an atmosphere rises very slowly, if at all, above the heads of the respirants. 1919 Eccles. Rev. 61 715 The frog being an amphibian, aquatic in its origin, and classed with the cold-blooded respirants, is commonly regarded as fish. 1975 A. E. Ingham Sea Surv. I. iv. 221 Carbon dioxide is exuded by respirants and oxygen is produced by photosynthesis. 1998 A. P. Rudy in A. Light Social Ecol. after Bookchin ix. 287 This moment in ecological history represents the moment when single cellular anaerobic respirants had so ‘polluted’ their environment with oxygen by-products that cellular metabolites were available in increasingly short supply. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?1578 |
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