Organ or Tissue Function
respiratory transport
res·pi·ra·to·ry trans·port
Subclass of:
Biological Transport; Respiration
Definitions related to respiratory transport:
  • The processes of diffusion across the BLOOD-AIR BARRIER, and the chemical reactions coupled with diffusion that effect the rate of PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE, generally at the alveolar level.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (respiratory gas transport) Movement of oxygen from the environment into tissue and elimination of carbon dioxide.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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