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Functional Residual Capacity

"Functional Residual Capacity" 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 normal, quiet expiration. It is the sum of the RESIDUAL VOLUME and the EXPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME. Common abbreviation is FRC.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Functional Residual Capacity" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Functional Residual Capacity" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 27 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007 and 2009
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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.