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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
Anthony Burgess
Respiration
Find
He
Said
Am
His
Child
Artificial
Now
Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
Peter A. Levine
Heart
Increase
Increasing
Our
Respiration
System
Response
Threat
Objective
Rate
Adrenaline
Tension
Source
Heart Rate
Escape
Get
Whole
Prepare
Flooded
Away
Basic
Level
Basically
Muscles
Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.
Lyall Watson
Change
Experience
Water
Made
Our
Air
Our Lives
Liberating
Ancestors
Range
Respiration
Easy
Staying
Constraints
Having
Remain
Freed
New
Reach
Within
Wet
Refuge
Biggest
Reproduction
Sensory
Breathing
Us
Expose
Whole
Lives
In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are 'regulated' so as to correspond to the demand of the moment.
August Krogh
Man
Circulation
Respiration
Correspond
Demand
Blood
Organisms
Moment
Many
Mechanical
Including
It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.
August Krogh
Work
Man
Technically
Insects
Bicycle
Doubt
Swimming
Birds
Respiration
Possible
Constant
No Doubt
Rate
Similar
Study
Obtain
Obtained
Metabolism
Fishes
Information
Certain
Flight
Treadmill
One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.
Archibald Hill
Time
Respiration
Some
More
Longer
Knows
Exercise
After
Breathes
Violent
The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
Otto Heinrich Warburg
Man
Nothing
Respiration
Toxic
Reaction
Effect
Blood
Iron
Cellular
Inhibition
Based
Carbon