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ventilation (physiology)
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Ventilation (physiology)
In
respiratory physiology
,
ventilation
is the movement of air between the environment and the
lungs
via
inhalation
and
exhalation
. Thus, for organisms with lungs, it is
synonymous
with
breathing
. Ventilation usually happens in a rhythmic pattern, and the
frequency
of that pattern is called the
ventilation rate
(or, by long-standing convention, the
respiratory rate
, although in precise
usage
ventilation
is a
hyponym
, not a
synonym
, of
respiration
).
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