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Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Techniques, Respiratory System > Respiratory Function Tests > Pulmonary Gas Exchange
Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Respiration > Respiratory Transport > Pulmonary Gas Exchange
Metabolism > Biological Transport > Respiratory Transport > Pulmonary Gas Exchange

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Pulmonary Gas Exchange  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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  • Exchange, Pulmonary Gas
  • Gas Exchange, Pulmonary

Note

  • do not coordinate with OXYGEN or CARBON DIOXIDE unless particularly discussed

Scope note

  • The exchange of OXYGEN and CARBON DIOXIDE between alveolar air and pulmonary capillary blood that occurs across the BLOOD-AIR BARRIER.

History note

  • 83

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011659

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