How is compliance calculated?

a. Change in pressure/change in flow
b. Change in pressure/change in volume
c. Change in volume/change in flow
d. Change in volume/change in pressure

ANS: D
Compliance of the lung (CL) is defined as volume change per unit of pressure change.

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