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pulmonary compliance
pul·mo·nar·y com·pli·ance
Definitions related to pulmonary compliance:
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A measure of the lung's ability to stretch and expand, either statically, the change in volume for a given applied pressure, or dynamically, the elasticity of the lung at any given time during the actual movement of air.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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The elasticity of the pulmonary walls.CDISC TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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