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Compliance vs Elastance - What's the difference?

compliance | elastance |

In medicine terms the difference between compliance and elastance

is that compliance is the accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan while elastance is a measurement of the tendency of the lung, urinary bladder, gallbladder or other cavity to recoil inwards. Opposite of compliance.

As nouns the difference between compliance and elastance

is that compliance is an act of complying while elastance is an electrical property that is the inverse of capacitance.

compliance

English

Noun

  • An act of complying.
  • (uncountable) The state of being compliant.
  • (uncountable) The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
  • A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
  • (medicine) The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
  • (uncountable, business) the department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with

    • Antonyms

    *(act of complying) violation

    elastance

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (physics) An electrical property that is the inverse of capacitance.
  • (medicine) A measurement of the tendency of the lung, urinary bladder, gallbladder or other cavity to recoil inwards. Opposite of compliance.

    • References

    *OED2