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ELASTANCE [3 records]

Record 1 2006-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Morphology and General Physiology
DEF

A measure of the ease with which a hollow viscus (e.g., lung, urinary bladder, gallbladder) may be distended, for example, the volume change resulting from the application of a unit pressure differential between the inside and outside of the viscus.

PHR

Ventricular, lung compliance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Morphologie et physiologie générale
DEF

Aptitude d’une cavité organique à changer de volume sous l’influence d’une variation de pression.

OBS

La compliance se mesure par le rapport de la variation de volume à la variation de pression, le rapport inverse étant appelé «élastance ».

PHR

Compliance ventriculaire, pulmonaire.

Spanish

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Record 2 1998-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Respiratory System
OBS

elastance: The recoil pressure resulting from a unit change of volume of a hollow viscus ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareil respiratoire
DEF

Variation de pression transpulmonaire nécessaire pour entraîner une variation de volume donné du poumon [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 1994-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cardiovascular System

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système cardio-vasculaire
DEF

Variation de la pression intra-pulmonaire déterminée par la variation correspondante du volume pulmonaire.

Spanish

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