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pursed-lip breathing a breathing technique in which air is inhaled slowly through the nose and then exhaled slowly through pursed lips. This type of breathing is often used by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to prevent small airway collapse.
respiration. 1  act or process of respiring; breathing; inhaling and exhaling air. 2  the processes by which a living organism or cell takes in oxygen from the air or water, distributes and utilizes it in oxidation, and gives off products of oxidation, esp. carbon dioxide. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath. 2  An act of breathing; a breath. 3  Any similar process, in organisms that lack lungs, that exchanges gases with its environment.