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residual volume is the amount of air left in your lungs after fully exhaling.
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What effect does aerobic training has on vital capacity and residual volume?
What happens is the vital capacity of the lungs greatly increases over time while residual volume decreases. Essentially the body is becoming more conditioned and the entire cardiovascular system improves, therefore it does not need the extra residual volume. However, if someone were to not exercise at all the opposite would occur. Source: Fitness For Life class I was in during winter quarter of 2011.
Can you use the spirometer to measure your total lung capacity?
No. A spirometer can be used to measure the volume of breath a person can expire but it is impossible to expire your entire lung capacity. This is due to the "dead space" capacity that remains to stop the collapse of the alveoli. As the alveoli are spherical and lined with mucus if they collapse it would be impossble for them to be filled again and so some air must remain within them. It is, however, possible to estimate someone's total lung capacity from the spirometer reading.
Why is residual volume left?
it is left so that there is sufficient time for enough oxygen to be absorbed and for the carbon dioxide to be released
What is an example of forced exhalation?
Exhalation as in breathing out normally is part of your respiratory tidal volume - the volume you use normally, whereas forced exhalation is breathing out more than you need to, your expiratory residual volume.
What happens to volume when air temperature increases?
If pressure remains constant, then volume is directly proportional to temperature. Hot air is quite loud.
The air remaining in the lung after a maximal expiration is the?
residual volume
What is residual volume of air?
Residual volume is the amount of air left in the lungs after a maximal exhalation
Which volume of air is not included in the vital capacity?
residual (reserve) volume
The lungs contain a certain amount of air that cannot be forced out the volume of air is known as what?
this is called residual volume.
The amount of air that can no be exhaled is called?
The residual volume is the volume of air remaining in the lungs after the most powerful expiration.
What is meant by residual volume with reference of breathing?
Exhalation is a passive action that results from elastic recoil and changes in air pressure. When this happens naturally a portion of air remains within the lungs- residual volume. However when exhalation is forced, that is conscious efforts to expel as much air as possible, many of the residual volume can be forced out of the lungs.
The amount of air remaining in the alveolus after expiration is referred to as what?
residual volume
What is the difference between tidal volume and residual volume and pulmonary?
Tidal volume is the volume of air that moves in and goes out in asingle stroke, and is abut 500ml.
What is the amount of air remaining in the lungs even after the greatest possible expiratory effort?
residual volume
What is the medical term meaning stale air in the respiratory tract?
The residual volume is the portion of air in the respiratory tract that cannot be exhaled.
What is the functional residual capacity FRC composed of?
Functional Residual Capacity (FRC) = Expiratory Reserve Volume (ERV) + Residual Volume (RV)
Air remaining lungs after forced expiration?
The air that can not be exhaled is called residual volume.TV = the amount of air displaced during normal breathing.IRV = The amount of air that can be taken in forcibly beyond tidal volumeErv= The amount of that can be expelled forcibly.Vital capacity = the total amount of exchangeable air.Total Lung capacity = TV + IRV + ERV + RESIDUAL VOLUME
