Definition of Cardiorespiratory

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions. "Cardiopulmonary resuscitation"

Exact synonyms: Cardiopulmonary
Partainyms: Heart, Lung, Heart, Respiration

Definition of Cardiorespiratory

1. Adjective. pertaining to the heart and breathing ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Cardiorespiratory

1. Relating to the heart and lungs and their function. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiorespiratory

cardioprotection
cardioprotective
cardioptosia
cardiopulmonary
cardiopulmonary arrest
cardiopulmonary exercise
cardiopulmonary murmur
cardiopulmonary obstructive shock
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
cardiopulmonary splanchnic nerves
cardiopulmonary transplantation
cardiopulmonology
cardiopyloric
cardiorenal
cardiorespiratory (current term)
cardiorespiratory murmur
cardiorrhaphy
cardiorrhexis
cardioscope
cardioselective
cardioselectivity
cardiospasm
cardiosphygmograph
cardiosphygmographs
cardiotachometer
cardiothoracic
cardiothoracic ratio
cardiothrombus

Literary usage of Cardiorespiratory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Navy Seal Physical Fitness Guide edited by Patricia A. Deuster (1997)
"cardiorespiratory Conditioning The American College of Sports ... The overall goal of these organizations is to promote cardiorespiratory conditioning, ..."

2. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"cardiorespiratory fitness or aerobic capacity describes the body's ... Having higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness helps enable people to carry out ..."

3. A Manual of the Practice of Medicine: Prepared Especially for Students by Arthur Albert Stevens (1892)
"cardiorespiratory Murmur.—This is a rare adventitious sound, produced by the rhythmic expulsion of air from the lappet of lung covering the heart by the ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"(c) cardiorespiratory Murmurs These sounds, known also as pulsatile pulmonary sounds (SJ Gee), arise in the lungs chiefly during the systoles accompanying ..."

5. Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General by Audrey F. Manley (1998)
"Associations are generally stronger for measured cardiorespiratory ... Blair, Kohl, and Barlow (1993) showed that low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness ..."

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