alveolardeadspace (countable anduncountable,pluralalveolar dead spaces)
- (physiology) Thevolume ofair in thealveoli of thelung which does notpartake in theexchange ofgas.
1957, J. W. Severinghaus, M. Stupfel,Alveolar dead space as an index of distribution of blood flaw in pulmonary capillaries. J. Appl. Physiol. 10: 335-348:Alveolar dead space is herein defined as the difference between the physiologic and anatomic dead spaces.
air in the lung which does not partake in gas exchange
Arend Bouhuys. 1964. "Respiratory dead space." inHandbook of Physiology. Section 3: Respiration. Vol 1. Wallace O. Fenn and Hermann Rahn (eds). Washington: American Physiological Society.
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