espaço morto

Portuguese

Noun

espaço morto m (plural espaços mortos)

  1. (physiology, pneumonology) alveolar dead space (air in the lung which does not partake in gas exchange)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see espaço,‎ morto.
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