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Descriptor English: Lung Compliance
Descriptor Spanish: Rendimiento Pulmonar
Descriptor distensibilidad pulmonar
Scope note: Capacidad de los PULMONES para distenderse por efecto de la presión según se mide por el cambio en el volumen pulmonar por unidad de presión cambiada. Aunque no es claramente una descripción completa de las propiedades de volumen-presión del pulmón, es útil en la práctica como medida de la rigidez comparativa del pulmón. (Traducción libre del original: Best & Taylor's Physiological Basis of Medical Practice, 12th ed, p562)
Descriptor Portuguese: Complacência Pulmonar
Descriptor French: Compliance pulmonaire
Entry term(s): Compliance, Lung
Compliances, Lung
Lung Compliances
Tree number(s): E01.370.386.700.475
G09.772.540
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008170
Scope note: 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)
Annotation: usually NIM
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Elasticity (1966-1967)
Lung/physiology (1966-1967)
Public MeSH Note: 70
History Note: 70(68)
Related: Respiratory Mechanics MeSH
DeCS ID: 28129
Unique ID: D008170
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Date Established: 1970/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Lung Compliance - Preferred
Concept UI M0012743
Scope note 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)
Preferred term Lung Compliance
Entry term(s) Compliance, Lung
Compliances, Lung
Lung Compliances



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