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Airway Resistance

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-000966

Physiologically, the opposition to flow of air caused by the forces of friction. As a part of pulmonary function testing, it is the ratio of driving pressure to the rate of air flow.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-000966
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesNLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-000966",
  "term": "Airway Resistance",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Physiologically, the opposition to flow of air caused by the forces of friction. As a part of pulmonary function testing, it is the ratio of driving pressure to the rate of air flow.",
  "references": [
    "NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/airway-resistance/"
}

Record 966 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.