isovolume pressure-flow curve

isovolume pressure-flow curve
a curve generated by plotting various values of pressures against the corresponding airflows at a single lung volume. At high lung volumes (approaching total lung capacity), the maximum flow or flow limitation is usually not reached. See illustration.

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