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Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SPIROMETRY
SPIROMETRY
Definitions of SPIROMETRY
- (medicine) The measurement of the volume of air that a person can move into and out of the lungs, using a spirometer.
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10
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Examples of Using SPIROMETRY in a Sentence
- Diagnosis is usually based on the pattern of symptoms, response to therapy over time, and spirometry lung function testing.
- Exhaled volumes are measured by a pulmonary function test or simple spirometry, leading to an elevated residual volume and a measurement of forced expiratory volume.
- While there are no absolute contraindications for spirometry use, inspiratory muscle training can worsen some existing medical conditions, including the following:.
- Patient history, CT scan of neck and chest, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, and spirometry are all several ways to assess for laryngotracheal stenosis and effectively develop preoperational approaches to treating the disease.
- Its diagnostic services at polyclinics, community hospitals, general practitioner clinics, nursing homes, home care providers and the community include general X-ray, mammography, ultrasound, electrocardiography, bone mineral densitometry, spirometry, phlebotomy and laboratory testing.
- Measurement of transpulmonary pressure assists in spirometry in availing for calculation of static lung compliance.
- Sometimes, to assess the reversibility of a particular condition, a bronchodilator is administered to counteract the effects of the bronchoconstrictor before repeating the spirometry tests.
- The post bronchodilator test (Post BD), also commonly referred to as a reversibility test, is a test that utilizes spirometry to assess possible reversibility of bronchoconstriction in diseases such as asthma.
- NPT may be monitored by clinical scores, rhinomanometry, acoustic rhinometry, nasal smear cytology and/or spirometry.
- He described the use of oscillometry to decipher the silent zone of the small airways' inflammation due to WTC dust in the presence of normal spirometry yet persistent respiratory symptoms.
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