physiologic dead space (English, noun)
expansion: physiologic dead space (countable and uncountable, plural physiologic dead spaces)
Senses:
glosses: The volume of the conducting airways of the lung. This definition became inadequate once the alveolar dead space was described.
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: That volume of air in the lung which does not partake in gas exchange.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: That volume of air in the lung that does not eliminate carbon dioxide, as defined functionally by the Bohr equation.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The sum of the anatomic plus the alveolar dead spaces.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The sum of the parallel and the serial dead spaces.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: physiologic dead spaces
tags: plural