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Definition of Respiratory rate
1. Noun. The rate at which a person inhales and exhales; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health.
Definition of Respiratory rate
1. Noun. The number of breaths taken in a specified time (usually a minute) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Respiratory rate
1. The number of breaths per minute (or, more formally, the number of movements indicative of inspiration and expiration per unit time). In practice, the respiratory rate is usually determined by counting the number of times the chest rises (or falls) per minute. By whatever means, the aim is to determine if the respirations are normal, abnormally fast (tachypnea), abnormally slow (technically termed bradypnea), or nonexistent (apnea). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Respiratory Rate
Literary usage of Respiratory rate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"The respiratory rate is a sensitive and nonspecific indicator of respiratory
dysfunction. Establishing a normal respiratory rate has mainly been arbitrary. ..."
2. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"... afferent impulses (Y. Henderson and Scarbrough, 1910). The threshold to C02
is raised (Hig- gins and Means, 1915). The respiratory rate may be slowed ..."
3. Diseases of the Chest and the Principles of Physical Diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis (1917)
"Acceleration of the respiratory rate may be one of the earliest symptoms of pneumonia
... Quickening of the respiratory rate is due to several causes, ..."
4. Diseases of the Chest and the Principles of Physical Diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis (1917)
"Acceleration of the respiratory rate may be one of the earliest symptoms of pneumonia
... Quickening of the respiratory rate is due to several causes, ..."
5. Diseases of the Chest and the Principles of Physical Diagnosis by George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1920)
"Acceleration of the respiratory rate may be one of the earliest symptoms of
pneumonia especially when the disease occurs as a terminal infection in the aged ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"After each of the other injections, however, there was a more or less marked drop
in respiratory rate, which was accompanied by a decrease and irregularity ..."
7. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1908)
"The respiratory rate was, at this time (7:38 PM), 100 a minute but there were
... At 8:18, the hind end was lowered again, and the respiratory rate fell to ..."
8. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"... of these cut nerves below the origin of the laryngeal branches by a current
of electricity of moderate intensity, the respiratory rate may be increased, ..."
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