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... > Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Techniques, Respiratory System > Respiratory Function Tests > Pulmonary Gas Exchange > Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity
... > Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Respiration > Respiratory Transport > Pulmonary Gas Exchange > Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity
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Preferred term

Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Capacity, Pulmonary Diffusing
  • Diffusing Capacity, Pulmonary

Scope note

  • The amount of a gas taken up, by the pulmonary capillary blood from the alveolar gas, per minute per unit of average pressure of the gradient of the gas across the BLOOD-AIR BARRIER.

History note

  • 72(71)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011653

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