vital capacity , auch: VC

He also showed that vital capacity does not relate to weight at any given height.

A normal adult has a vital capacity between 3 and 5 litres.

Some of the parameters described by him are used today which included residual volume and vital capacity.

A person's vital capacity can be measured by a wet or regular spirometer.

Pulmonary function test demonstrates a decrease in the forced vital capacity.

I saw the smallness of the clouds as a diminished pulmonary vital capacity, from his cancer.

Mean transit time is the area under the flow-volume curve divided by the forced vital capacity.

In order to even consider getting off the artificial respirator, a patient needs a vital capacity of 750 ccs.

In combination with other physiological measurements, the vital capacity can help make a diagnosis of underlying lung disease.

Vital capacity increases with height and decreases with age.

The forced vital capacity may be monitored at intervals to detect increasing muscular weakness.

He coined the term vital capacity, which was claimed as a powerful prognosis for heart disease by Framingham study.

"Your 'vital capacity' is the amount of air your lungs hold, measured in liters.

It is usually measured at the same time as your forced vital capacity (FVC).

The water spirometer measuring vital capacity was developed by a surgeon named John Hutchinson, in 1846.

It represents the proportion of a person's vital capacity that they are able to expire in the first second of expiration.

This is called forced vital capacity, or FVC.

Retrospective studies in scleroderma: pulmonary findings and effect of potassium p-aminobenzoate on vital capacity.

Vital capacity is the maximum amount of air a person can expel from the lungs after a maximum inhalation.

Percent predicted forced vital capacity in the group of patients treated with aglucosidase alfa increased by 1.2 percent at 78 weeks.

Yet it was none the less mind, concerned in the last resort with the maintenance and advancement of life, and the exercise of vital capacities.

We measured the patients' arterial blood gas tensions, forced expiratory volume, and forced vital capacity.

Formulas to estimate vital capacity are:

Forced vital capacity (FVC), the amount of air that can be forcibly breathed out after taking a deep breath.