cardiorespiratory
- adjective
- /ˌkɑrdioʊrɪˈspɪrətɔri/
- Specialized
- Regular aerobic exercises can significantly improve your cardiorespiratory fitness, benefiting both your heart and lungs.
- cardiorespiratory fitness
- cardiorespiratory endurance
- cardiorespiratory fitness level
Examples
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The basic concepts taught were: cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular-skeletal fitness, and body composition.
Academic text (1995) -
Pfeiffer, Dowda, Dishman, Sirard, and Pate (2007) reported that cardiorespiratory fitness in female students changed from middle to high school, declining from ninth to 12th grades.
Academic text (2014) -
Improve their cardiorespiratory fitness level.
Academic text (2006) -
And if you do burpee sets, it provides both a cardiorespiratory boost as well as a as a strength boost.
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The increased emphasis in physical education curricula is to provide students with activities that produce cardiorespiratory benefits.
Academic text (1992) -
Rates of physical activity from respondents in this study indicated that 7.6% performed no cardiorespiratory activity.
Academic text (2010) -
Specifically, this study examined the cardiorespiratory fitness and physical activity behavior of physical education majors.
Academic text (1995) -
The objective of the study reported here was to analyze relationships between levels of air pollutants and emergency admissions for cardiorespiratory disease.
Academic text (2005) -
The clinic, while equipped to diagnose and manage COPD, was not set up to deal with a broad range of cardiorespiratory conditions.
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New portable instruments need to be developed to simplify the collection and recording of mechanical, metabolic, and cardiorespiratory data during actual training and competition.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
Relating to both the heart and the lungs and how they work
Surface Forms
Morphology
cardiorespiratory = respiratory (semi-transparent) = cardio + respir + atory
The word is transparently built by adding cardio- to the recognizable base 'respiratory', but it remains specialized medical vocabulary.
Etymology
Cardiorespiratory joins two parts: cardio-, meaning 'heart' and seen in the common word cardio for exercise, and respiratory, a word meaning 'breathing'. So cardiorespiratory describes something that affects both the 'heart' and the 'lungs', which is why it refers to heart-and-lung function.