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Compliance
Introduction
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Compliance can mean:
- In mechanical science (cf. rheology), the inverse of stiffness
- Compliance (medicine), a patient’s (or doctor’s) adherence to a recommended course of treatment
- Compliance (physiology), a measure of the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions upon removal of a distending or compressing force.