conductance (redirected from airway conductance)

conductance /con·duc·tance/ (kon-duk´tans) the capacity for conducting or ability to convey. Symbol G.

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airway conductance  the reciprocal of airway resistance; the airflow divided by the mouth-to-alveoli pressure difference.

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con·duc·tance (kn-dktns)

n.

1. A measure of a material's ability to conduct electric charge; the reciprocal of the resistance.

2. The ease with which a fluid or gas enters and flows through a conduit, air passage, or respiratory tract.

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conductance

ability to conduct or transmit, as electricity or other energy or material; in studies of respiration, an expression of the amount of air reaching the alveoli per unit of time per unit of pressure, the reciprocal of resistance.