pléthysmographe corporel

Traductions

• anglais

  Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française, 1990

  Définition

  An airtight box in which a subject is confined so that changes in body volume may be determined by measuring changes of gas volume or pressure within the box.

  Note :

  It is used 18 measure airway resistance, functional residual capacity of the lung, and tracer gas uptake in the measurement of cardiac output.

  Terme :

  1. body plethysmograph