单词 | respirate |
释义 | respiratev. 1. intransitive. To breathe; = respire v. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > breathe [verb (intransitive)] etheOE breathea1398 andea1400 respire?a1425 blowc1440 queasea1500 suspire1600 respirate1668 rake1793 1668 Duchess of Newcastle Grounds Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) x. iii. 134 The Pox hath not sufficient Moisture to dilate, nor a sufficient natural Vapour to breath, or respirate. 1847 O. Winslow Personal Declension 115 Does it not seem like pleading with a man to live?—reminding him that he must respirate if he would maintain life? 1889 D. Macintyre Hindu-Koh 359 My sleep had not been either of the soundest or most comfortable kind, from my being unable to respirate freely in a recumbent position at such a height. 1920 M. Paterson Shibboleths Tuberculosis xxxii. 136 The children would only then, in theory, get absoutely unbreathed air because all of them would now respirate together. 2002 P. Ramsey Patient as Person (ed. 2) ii. 67 He made the determination that the boy was dead (because of the massive brain injury and his failure to restore the boy's ability to respirate) while his heart was still ‘spontaneously’ beating. 2. transitive. Chiefly Biology and Medicine. To ventilate (in various senses); (in later use) esp. to administer artificial respiration to. Also: to take in (a substance) through the lungs or gills. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [verb (transitive)] > others animalize1790 sterilize1891 ultrafilter1908 enucleate1909 homogenize1936 harvest1946 superfuse1953 bursectomize1958 perifuse1969 respirate1971 transfect1974 1766 Art of Knowing Mankind 135 Liberty respirates the soul in the same manner, as air does the body. 1846 Fortunes & Adventures Raby Rattler 250 I perceived that the instrument [sc. a bassoon] was the very one which he had been wont to respirate his youthful lungs within his youthful home. 1883 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 3 779 They [sc. the six pairs of feet of a cladoceran] are kept in constant motion, and thus serve both to respirate the blood and to bring food to the mouth. 1891 J. MacVine Sixty-three Years' Angling 198 The fish must respirate those poisons when they are carried into the river. 1916 Detroit Med. Jrnl. 16 354/1 If it was possible..to respirate the air cells in the alveolar region of the lungs with fresh air at the rate of some eighteen times per minute. 1971 Nature 28 May 263/2 Trackers were cannulated and the animals were respirated artificially with a Harvard respirator. 2002 N.Y. Mag. 25 Feb. 39/3 He had to be manually respirated with an oxygen bag throughout the 90-minute operation. 3. intransitive. Biology = respire v. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > metabolism > [verb (intransitive)] > processes respire1894 respirate1975 1975 Water Res. 9 1182/1 The bacteria respirate..until a relatively high KCN-concentration is reached. 1992 Pract. Fishkeeping Apr. (BNC) 126 The plants will respirate during the hours of darkness, giving off carbon dioxide and absorbing oxygen. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures II. 644/1 This turtle is able to remain under water for long periods because it can respirate through a network of blood vessels in its cloaca. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1668 |
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