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external respiration

n :  exchange of gases between the external environment and a distributing system of the animal body (as the lungs of higher vertebrates or the tracheal tubes of insects) or between the alveoli of the lungs and the blood - compare INTERNAL RESPIRATION  .
 
 

 
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