Respiratory cycle
A Respiratory cycle is a respiratory cycle is constituted by the inspiration followed by the expiration of a given volume of gas, called tidal volume. The duration of the respiratory cycle is the respiratory or ventilatory period, whose reciprocal is the ventilatory frequency.
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