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Alveolar ventilation is that part of the total ventilation actually reaching the pulmonary structures where gases are exchanged with blood. For the other part of the total ventilation travelling through the bronchial tree, heat and water are exchanged in the so-called ‘conducting airways’, the volume of which corresponds to the anatomical dead space.
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Lagneaux, D., Geubelle, F. (1987). Alveolar Ventilation in Newborns and its Postnatal Development. In: Walters, D.V., Strang, L.B., Geubelle, F. (eds) Physiology of the Fetal and Neonatal Lung. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4155-7_11
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