Functional Residual Capacity
"Functional Residual Capacity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The volume of air remaining in the LUNGS at the end of a normal, quiet expiration. It is the sum of the RESIDUAL VOLUME and the EXPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME. Common abbreviation is FRC.
| Descriptor ID |
D005652
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.386.700.485.750.275 G09.772.850.390
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| Concept/Terms |
Functional Residual Capacity- Functional Residual Capacity
- Capacities, Functional Residual
- Capacity, Functional Residual
- Functional Residual Capacities
- Residual Capacities, Functional
- Residual Capacity, Functional
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Functional Residual Capacity" by people in Profiles.
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Pressure- versus volume-limited sustained inflations at resuscitation of premature newborn lambs. BMC Pediatr. 2014 Feb 15; 14:43.
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Validity of new child-specific thoracic gas volume prediction equations for air-displacement plethysmography. BMC Pediatr. 2006 Jun 05; 6:18.
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Are small (though statistically significant) mean differences physiologically meaningful? Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2000 Dec; 32(12):2148-51.