NOUN
- the center in the medulla oblongata and pons that integrates sensory information about the level of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood and determines the signals to be sent to the respiratory muscles
How To Use respiratory center In A Sentence
- With a failing respiratory center, and consequent abnormal shallowness of respiration, anoxia in the arterial blood is the natural result of the recumbent position.
- So also with many of the other problems that I have touched upon, in renal and electrolyte physiology, as related to pulmonary disease, in blood formation, the physiology of the respiratory center, and so on. Dickinson W. Richards - Nobel Lecture
- The alkaloids stimulated the vasomotor and respiratory centers in the brain stem of dogs.
