Respiratory System

Respiration and Breathing

What is a normal respiratory rate?

The average person breathes about 16 times each minute and takes in one pint of air (0.5 liters) with each breath. In an average lifetime, we breathe over 75 million gallons (2.85 trillion liters) of air.

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