What's the difference between mephitic and miasmic?
Mephitic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Mephitical
Example Sentences:
(1) After experiments with a sparrow breathing in a closed vessel until it expired, Lavoisier stated that during respiration respirable air (O2) is changed into fixed air (CO2) in the lungs with the mephitic portion of the air (N2) not taking part.