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Select the Correct Medical Term for an Instrument Used to Measure

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Select the correct medical term for an instrument used to measure breathing volumes.


Definitions:

Extension

The process or state of increasing in length, area, or volume, often referred to in geology as the stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust.

Subduction Zone

A region of the Earth's crust where one tectonic plate moves under another, leading to volcanic activity and earthquakes.

Arc

A continuous portion of a circle or other curved line, or in geological terms, a curved series of volcanic islands that form above a subducting plate.

Tectonic Terrane

A fault-bounded body of rock that has a different geologic history than adjacent regions.

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