pulmonary reserve

1. 1.

   the additional volume of air that the lungs can inhale and exhale when breathing to the limit of capacity in times of stress

   Broaderreserve

Questions about pulmonary reserve

What does pulmonary reserve mean?

pulmonary reserve means "the additional volume of air that the lungs can inhale and exhale when breathing to the limit of capacity in times of stress".

Is pulmonary reserve a common word?

pulmonary reserve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.