Multiple Choice
In healthy, spontaneously breathing patients, an occasional increase in tidal volume to three or four times the normal level, which normally occurs about six to ten times each hour, is the definition of a:
A) sigh.
B) cough.
C) sneeze.
D) forced vital capacity.
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