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A type of breathing in which the lungs are inflated with air and then the chest muscles and diaphragm relax and recoil back to their original positions as an animal exhales. During exhalation, air leaves via the same route that it entered during inhalation, and no new oxygen is delivered to the airways at that time.
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A type of breathing in which the lungs are inflated with air and then the chest muscles and diaphragm relax and recoil back to their original positions as an animal exhales.  
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During [[exhalation]], air leaves via the same route that it entered during inhalation, and no new [[oxygen]] is delivered to the airways at that time.

Latest revision as of 21:27, 22 January 2018

A type of breathing in which the lungs are inflated with air and then the chest muscles and diaphragm relax and recoil back to their original positions as an animal exhales.

During exhalation, air leaves via the same route that it entered during inhalation, and no new oxygen is delivered to the airways at that time.