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Residual Volume

"Residual Volume" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The volume of air remaining in the LUNGS at the end of a maximal expiration. Common abbreviation is RV.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Residual Volume" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Residual Volume" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2002 and 2007 and 2023
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.