Compliance

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Compliance can mean:

Healthcare

  • Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment
  • Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a specific usage of the mechanical meaning)
    • Pulmonary compliance (or lung compliance), change in lung volume for applied or dynamic pressure
  • Compliance (psychology), responding favorably to a request offered by others

Other uses

  • Compliance (film), released in 2012
  • "Compliance" (song), single from the 2022 studio album by the English rock band Muse
  • Compliance, in mechanical science, is the inverse of stiffness
  • Compliant mechanism, a flexible mechanism
  • Environmental compliance, conforming to environmental laws, regulations, standards and other requirements
  • Regulatory compliance, adherence to standards, regulations, and other requirements
  • Compliance with web standards

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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