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Alfred P. Fishman
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William Maul Measey Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Editor of Handbook of Physiology, sect. 3, The Respiratory System and others.

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Illustration showing different animals and their respiratory organs: a spider with book lungs, a chicken with lungs, a sponge with labeled inflow and outflow pores, a fish with gills, and a caterpillar with spiracles.
Respiratory system, the system in living organisms that takes up oxygen and discharges carbon dioxide in order to satisfy energy requirements. In the living organism, energy is liberated, along with carbon dioxide, through the oxidation of molecules containing carbon. The term respiration denotes…
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