Breathing: First Breath

Encyclopedia of Respiratory Medicine, Four-Volume Set

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 250-254

  Mortola, J P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airway receptors; Chemoreceptors; Delivery; Expiratory flow; Fetal circulation; Fetal pulmonary fluid; Grunting; Labor; Onset of breathing; Pressure volume diagram; Surface forces; Surfactants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979596085     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-370879-6/00045-4     Document Type: Chapter

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