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Abstract
Measure of the maximum amount of air that can be expelled in a given number of seconds during a FORCED VITAL CAPACITY determination . It is usually given as FEV followed by a subscript indicating the number of seconds over which the measurement is made, although it is sometimes given as a percentage of forced vital capacity.
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13 entry terms
- FEVt
- Forced Vital Capacity, Timed
- Timed Vital Capacity
- Vital Capacity, Timed
- Capacities, Timed Vital
- Capacity, Timed Vital
- Expiratory Volume, Forced
- Expiratory Volumes, Forced
- Forced Expiratory Volumes
- Timed Vital Capacities
- Vital Capacities, Timed
- Volume, Forced Expiratory
- Volumes, Forced Expiratory
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Indexed with the subheadings drug effects, ethics, genetics, immunology, physiology, radiation effects.
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Indexing Annotation
usually NIM; do not confuse with FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW RATES
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75
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Previous Indexing
- Spirometry (1966-1974)
- Vital Capacity (1969-1974)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Forced Expiratory Volume. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005541. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005541
- Forced Expiratory Volume. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102196648