respiratory organ

Other forms: respiratory organs

Definitions of respiratory organ

1. noun

   any organ involved in the process of respiration
   types:

   branchia, gill

   respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water

   lung

   either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood

   book lung

   organ in many arachnids containing many thin folds of membrane resembling the leaves of a book

   ctenidium

   comb-like respiratory structure serving as the gill of certain mollusks

   ceras

   one of the often brightly colored and branching hornlike structures on the back of the nudibranch (and other related mollusks) that serve as gills

   external gill

   occurs in some mollusks and in tadpoles and other immature amphibians

   type of:

   internal organ, viscus

   a main organ that is situated inside the body