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Descriptor English: Residual Volume
Descriptor Spanish: Volumen Residual
Descriptor volumen residual
Scope note: Volumen de aire que queda en el PULMÓN al final de una espiración máxima. Se abrevia habitualmente como VR.
Descriptor Portuguese: Volume Residual
Descriptor French: Volume résiduel
Entry term(s): Residual Volumes
Volume, Residual
Volumes, Residual
Tree number(s): E01.370.386.700.485.750.275.650
G09.772.850.390.820
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012115
Scope note: The volume of air remaining in the LUNGS at the end of a maximal expiration. Common abbreviation is RV.
Annotation: NIM; in texts as RV
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS 1975-90
History Note: 91(75); was see under LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS 1975-90
DeCS ID: 27796
Unique ID: D012115
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/12/12
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Residual Volume - Preferred
Concept UI M0018874
Scope note The volume of air remaining in the LUNGS at the end of a maximal expiration. Common abbreviation is RV.
Preferred term Residual Volume
Entry term(s) Residual Volumes
Volume, Residual
Volumes, Residual



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