viscance

plural viscances

1. countableuncountableThe amount of energy that dissipates due to flow in a viscous system.

   Figure 9 also shows the individual amounts of work performed in overcoming elasticity, tissue viscance, and airway resistance.

   1977, Physiological Systems Analysis for Engineers, page 14

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   In the intervening region of instability, airway viscance and parenchymal elastance are of the same order, and the derivative of P_A with respect to airway resistance is near its maximum.

   2002, Ron Chaim Anafi, Airway Bi-stability in a Model for the Constructed, page 58

   P_A - Pₚₗ is the pressure difference between the alveoli and the pleural space, which contains tissue viscance and the elastic recoil pressure of the lung (Pₑₗ).

   2005, Qutayba Hamid, Joanne Shannon, James Martin, Physiologic Basis of Respiratory Disease, →ISBN, page 35