alveolar dead space
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Noun edit
alveolar dead space (countable and uncountable, plural alveolar dead spaces)
- (physiology) The volume of air in the alveoli of the lung which does not partake in the exchange of gas.
- 1957, J. W. Severinghaus, M. Stupfel, Alveolar dead space as an index of distribution of blood flaw in pulmonary capillaries. J. Appl. Physiol. 10: 335-348:
- Alveolar dead space is herein defined as the difference between the physiologic and anatomic dead spaces.
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air in the lung which does not partake in gas exchange
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References edit
Arend Bouhuys. 1964. "Respiratory dead space." in Handbook of Physiology. Section 3: Respiration. Vol 1. Wallace O. Fenn and Hermann Rahn (eds). Washington: American Physiological Society.
John B. West. 2011. Respiratory Physiology: The Essentials. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Ninth edition. →ISBN.