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The average maximum capacity is around 6 liters of air, but when you exhale approximately 1.2 liters stays in your lungs. An easy way to measure this is to take a balloon and take a deep breath, then inflate the balloon as much as you can with just that breath. Measure the resulting diameter of the balloon in centimeters, then use the formula:
Volume = (4 / 3)(3.1416)(diameter / 2)^3
Then divide by 1000 to get your lung capacity in liters.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 13y agoVital capacity is a manuever performed to measure the amount of air that your can take in until you feel that you absoslutely can't inhale anymore and then exhale fully. Residual volume is the amount of air left in the lungs after you exhale no matter how much you blow out. This is what helps to keep the alveoli open. and Total lung capacity is the combination of the two of them. VC + RV=TLC
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∙ 15y agoTotal lung volume is the amount of air your lungs can hold, including the air in the air passages. Vital capacity is the amount of air you can breathe in and out.
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∙ 13y agoYes.
It is right. The total lung capacity means: The total of air that a person can contain to live (Vital capacity) and a part of saving air (aka: residual Volume)
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∙ 14y agolung capacity/volume: the volume of the air in the lung after maximal inspiration
there is no difference
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What does total lung capacity equals?
Total lung volume equals Vital Capacity + Residual Volume.
What is lung capacity meant by?
Your total lung capacity is the total volume of the lung after maximum inspiration. (average 6 litres).
What is the lung volume that represents the total volume of exchangeable air?
vital capacity
The lung volume that represents the total volume of exchangeable air is the?
vital capacity
What does the medical abbreviation TLC mean?
Total lung CapacityTotal Lung Capacity. Also known as TLC, this is the volume of the lungs after a maximal voluntary inspiration.
What measurement in addition to vital capacity is needed before you can calculate your total lung capacity?
Residual volume
What is the equation to measure lung volume?
No equation is possible, lung volume is measured by a machine in to which you breath.
As a result of the tidal volume change what happens to the flow into each lung and total air flow?
Airflow increases when surfactant is applied because the resistance to lung inflation has been reduced.
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.
Amy total lung capacity is 4000 mls Her tidal volume is 500 mls her expiratory reserve volume is 1000 mls and her residual volume is 500 mls What is the maximum volume of air that she has?
Well, first there is no such thing as mls. It is mL.
The air remaining in the lung after a maximal expiration is the?
residual volume
What units are maximum lung volume measured in?
inches
