viscance

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viscance (countable and uncountable, plural viscances)

  1. The amount of energy that dissipates due to flow in a viscous system.
    • 1977, Physiological Systems Analysis for Engineers, page 14:
      Figure 9 also shows the individual amounts of work performed in overcoming elasticity, tissue viscance, and airway resistance.
    • 2002, Ron Chaim Anafi, Airway Bi-stability in a Model for the Constructed, page 58:
      In the intervening region of instability, airway viscance and parenchymal elastance are of the same order, and the derivative of PA with respect to airway resistance is near its maximum.
    • 2005, Qutayba Hamid, Joanne Shannon, James Martin, Physiologic Basis of Respiratory Disease, →ISBN, page 35:
      PA - Ppl is the pressure difference between the alveoli and the pleural space, which contains tissue viscance and the elastic recoil pressure of the lung (Pel).

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