==Determinants of Airway Resistance== While the assumptions of the Hagen–Poiseuille equation are not strictly true of the respiratory tract it serves to show that, because of the fourth power, relatively small changes in the radius of the airways causes large changes in airway resistance. An individual small airway has much greater resistance th...
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The opposition of the tracheobronchial tree to air flow: the mouth-to-alveoli pressure difference divided by the air flow. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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the opposition of the tissues of the air passages to air flow: the mouth-to-alveoli pressure difference divided by the rate of air flow. Symbol RA or RAW.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. in physiology, the resistance to the flow of gases during ventilation resulting from obstruction or turbulent flow in the upper and lower airways; to be differentiated during inhalation from resistance to inflation resulting from decreases in pulmonary or thoracic compliance.
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