Usually means: Maximum air exhaled after inhalation.
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  1. vital capacity: Merriam-Webster
  2. vital capacity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vital capacity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vital capacity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vital capacity: Vocabulary.com
  6. vital capacity: Wordnik
  7. vital capacity: Wiktionary
  8. vital capacity: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. vital capacity: Dictionary.com
  10. Vital capacity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  12. vital capacity: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. vital capacity: Legal dictionary
  2. vital capacity: Financial dictionary

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  1. vital capacity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. vital capacity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Vital Capacity: GLOSSARY OF ALLERGY TERMS
  6. vital capacity: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vital capacity)

▸ noun:  (biology) The maximum volume of air that can be discharged from the lungs following maximum inspiration.

Similar:
residual volume, lung volume, lung capacity, tidal volume, biovolume, stroke volume, tidal air, blood volume, atomic volume, physiologic dead space, more...

Opposite:
residual volume

Types:
total lung capacity, residual volume, more...

Phrases:
forced vital capacity, more...

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Similar:
residual volume, lung volume, lung capacity, tidal volume, biovolume, stroke volume, tidal air, blood volume, atomic volume, physiologic dead space, more...

Opposite:
residual volume

Types:
total lung capacity, residual volume, more...

Phrases:
forced vital capacity, more...



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