Synonyms for respiratory
ˈrɛs pər əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, rɪˈspaɪər ə-res·pi·ra·to·ry

Princeton's WordNet

1. respiratoryadjective

   pertaining to respiration

   "respiratory assistance"

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1. List of paraphrases for "respiratory":

   breathing, respiration, airway, lung, breath, ventilatory, pulmonary

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1. Mark Fox:

   The reason that I think most people think the hiccups occur( in the uterus) is that it is actually training the respiratory muscles in the womb... because you do need to breathe just as soon as you're born. By repeatedly contracting and relaxing the diaphragm and the( other) breathing muscles, it trains the baby.

2. John Williams:

   Middle East Respiratory Syndrome is extremely deadly, about 30 % of people who are infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome will die, so the virus got over one of the barriers -- it's able to infect humans, grow in them and cause disease -- but thankfully it really doesn't spread well person to person, other than very, very close contacts.

3. Chris Whitty:

   In terms of the medium-term, my expectation is that we will get a further winter surge, late autumn/winter surge, and that is because we know that winter and autumn favor respiratory viruses, and therefore it’d be very surprising if this particular highly transmissible respiratory virus was not also favored.

4. Rubin Donis:

   You will not have a pandemic without a virus that replicates well in the upper respiratory tract and is easily transmitted by droplets.

5. Ian Williams:

   There is no evidence out there that, so far with [ Covid-19 ], that its foodborne-driven or food service-driven, this really is respiratory, person-to-person. At this point there is no evidence really pointing us towards food [ or ] food service as ways that are driving the epidemic.