respiration

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This is why the onset of Parkinson's often entails autonomic dysfunction — which means involuntary processes like heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, etc. are compromised.

From Salon

“It seems that practicing some control over your respiration is a kind of entry into one way of controlling your autonomic activity.”

From Washington Post

For one, the researchers weren’t able to quantify how much carbon whales breathe back into the atmosphere through respiration, Pearson said.

From Los Angeles Times

Signs of acute poisoning include nausea, vomiting, restlessness, flushed skin, sweating, dizziness, headaches, rapid respiration and irregular heartbeat.

From BBC

They are watching his blood pressure and respiration carefully and almost certainly have conducted a variety of tests and scans in an effort to determine damage to his brain, O’Brien said.

From Washington Post