Talk:Respiration
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I've redirected Breathing here for now -- but this page is about oxygen & CO2, not about lungs and the diaphragm etc. I'll leave it to the biologists to decide whether to add that here or create an article at Breathing -- Tarquin 18:41 Dec 29, 2002 (UTC)
When someone does get around to making a page on breathing they should add a link to bell jar model lung.-- Theresa knott 08:59 Feb 25, 2003 (UTC)
Moved from the vllage pump: Are there any biologists out there who can look at the page respiration. It looks wrong to me. What this page describes is what I would call gas exchange. I would guess that most people querying a search engine on respiration would be looking for cellular respiration, not this. Theresa knott 13:29 9 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- In french, respiration has clearly *two* senses in biology. I guess it is the same in english, except if breathing is the second term used, but I *really* doubt so. Afaik, the term has two meanings : the first is described here : that is the physiological respiration, the second term is the biochemistry one to which you refer in the pump. It makes perfect sense to me that the two explanations stay at the same place, but the two meaning should be introduced at the beginning of the article for clarity. I don't think it is confusing at all (as long as it is clearly initially defined) and I don't think one can say one definition is expected more than the other. Of course, I might be wrong :-) user:Anthere
Ok I've gone ahead and changed the page to give the two meanings at the top of the page. Theresa knott 08:29 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)
