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Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Total Lung Capacity > Closing Volume
... > Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Techniques, Respiratory System > Respiratory Function Tests > Lung Volume Measurements > Total Lung Capacity > Closing Volume

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Closing Volume  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • NIM

Scope note

  • The lung volume at which the dependent lung zones cease to ventilate presumably as a result of airway closure.

History note

  • 91(78); was see under LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS 1978-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003011

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