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Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Pulmonary Ventilation > Maximal Voluntary Ventilation
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Preferred term

Maximal Voluntary Ventilation  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Breathing Capacities, Maximal
  • Breathing Capacity, Maximal
  • Capacities, Maximal Breathing
  • Capacity, Maximal Breathing
  • Maximal Breathing Capacities
  • Maximal Breathing Capacity
  • MVV (Ventilation)

Note

  • usually NIM

Scope note

  • Measure of the maximum amount of air that can be breathed in and blown out over a sustained interval such as 15 or 20 seconds. Common abbreviations are MVV and MBC.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008451

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