Maximum voluntary ventilation (MVV) is the greatest amount of air that can be

A. expired in 1 second.
B. held within the lungs for over 30 seconds.
C. inspired in one breath (regardless of dead space).
D. inspired and then expelled in 1 minute.


Answer: D

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