CELLULAR RESPIRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cellular respiration mean? 

• CELLULAR RESPIRATION (noun)
  The noun CELLULAR RESPIRATION has 1 sense:

1. the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs

  Familiarity information: CELLULAR RESPIRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELLULAR RESPIRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cellular respiration; internal respiration; respiration

Hypernyms ("cellular respiration" is a kind of...):

metabolic process; metabolism (the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life)

 Context examples 

This gene plays a role in cellular respiration.

(NDUFV1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes CDGSH iron-sulfur domain-containing protein 1, plays a role in the modulation of both cellular respiration and iron-sulfur cluster-dependent redox reactions.

(CISD1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in both glutamine metabolism and cellular respiration.

(Glutaminase Liver Isoform, Mitochondrial, NCI Thesaurus)

Like other vinca alkaloids, vinorelbine may also interfere with the metabolism of nucleic acids, lipids, amino acids, cAMP, and glutathione, as well as other biological processes including calmodulin-dependent Ca2+-transport, ATPase activity, or cellular respiration.

(Liposomal Vinorelbine, NCI Thesaurus)

T3 enters the cell and binds to nuclear thyroid hormone receptors, and the hormone-receptor complex in turn triggers gene expression and produces proteins required in the regulation of cellular respiration, thermogenesis, cellular growth and differentiation, and metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids.

(Levothyroxine, NCI Thesaurus)

T3 enters the cell and binds to nuclear thyroid hormone receptors; the activated hormone-receptor complex in turn triggers gene expression and produces proteins required in the regulation of cellular respiration; thermogenesis; cellular growth and differentiation; and the metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates and lipids.

(Levothyroxine Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)