KROK 1 2016 – Question 177 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
During recording of a spirogram a patient calmly exhaled. How do we call the volume of air remaining in the lungs?
- A. Vital capacity of lungs
- B. Functional residual capacity
- C. Pulmonary residual volume
- D. Expiratory reserve volume
- E. Tidal volume
Hint
Look at what stays in the lungs at the end of a quiet expiration and decide whether that amount is a single volume or the sum of two volumes.
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