If you exhaled normally into the environment, and then blew all of the air that you could into a balloon, the volume of air in the balloon would represent the
A. functional residual capacity (FRC).
B. expiratory capacity (EC).
C. inspiratory reserve volume (IRV).
D. expiratory reserve volume (ERV).
E. vital capacity (VC).
Answer: D
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