Term: vital capacity: the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation (usually tested with a spirometer); used to determine the condition of lung tissue
Candidate hypernym: psychological feature: a feature of the mental life of a living organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: saltation: (genetics) a mutation that drastically changes the phenotype of an organism or species → 0
Candidate hypernym: chuck-will's-widow: large whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: jacks: a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball → 0
Candidate hypernym: heat of vaporization: heat absorbed by a unit mass of a material at its boiling point in order to convert the material into a gas at the same temperature → 0
Candidate hypernym: expansion bit: a bit with a cutting blade that can be adjusted to different sizes → 0
Candidate hypernym: smoothbark: any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk → 0
Candidate hypernym: anomaly: (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun) → 0
Candidate hypernym: isotropy: (physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions → 0
Candidate hypernym: viola da braccio: a member of the viol family with approximately the range of a viola → 0
Candidate hypernym: coarseness: the quality of lacking taste and refinement → 0