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Lung Compliance

"Lung Compliance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The capability of the LUNGS to distend under pressure as measured by pulmonary volume change per unit pressure change. While not a complete description of the pressure-volume properties of the lung, it is nevertheless useful in practice as a measure of the comparative stiffness of the lung. (From Best & Taylor's Physiological Basis of Medical Practice, 12th ed, p562)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lung Compliance" by people in this website by year, and whether "Lung Compliance" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 8 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 1996
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