wheeze vs external respiration

wheeze and external respiration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wheeze	Yes	No	Yes	No
external respiration	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, external respiration is a hypernym of wheeze; that is, external respiration is a word with a broader meaning than wheeze:

wheeze: breathing with a husky or whistling sound
external respiration: the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation

Other hypernyms of wheeze include breathing, respiration, ventilation.

wheeze (noun)	external respiration (noun)
breathing with a husky or whistling sound	the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
(Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick

wheeze (verb)	external respiration (verb)
breathe with difficulty