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Harmful space

Harmful space (synonym: dead space):

  1. The site of space of respiratory tracts filled with the air which is not involved in gas exchange;
  2. The volume of that site of internal space of the installations joining respiratory tracts (narcotic devices, gas masks, medical ventilators) from which expired air at a breath can come to respiratory tracts again.
 
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