Compliance can mean:
Healthcare
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Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment
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Compliance (physiology)
Compliance is the ability of a hollow organ (vessel) to distend and increase volume with increasing transmural pressure or the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions on application of a distending or compressin ...
, the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a specific usage of the mechanical meaning)
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Pulmonary compliance
The lungs are the primary organs of the respiratory system in humans and most other animals, including some snails and a small number of fish. In mammals and most other vertebrates, two lungs are located near the backbone on either side of ...
(or lung compliance), change in lung volume for applied or dynamic pressure
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Compliance (psychology), responding favorably to a request offered by others
Other uses
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''Compliance'' (film), released in 2012
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''Compliance'' (song), single from the 2022 studio album by the English rock band Muse
* Compliance, in mechanical science, is the inverse of
stiffness
Stiffness is the extent to which an object resists deformation in response to an applied force.
The complementary concept is flexibility or pliability: the more flexible an object is, the less stiff it is.
Calculations
The stiffness, k, of a b ...
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Compliant mechanism
In mechanical engineering, a compliant mechanism is a flexible mechanism that achieves force and motion transmission through elastic body deformation. It gains some or all of its motion from the relative flexibility of its members rather than fro ...
, a flexible mechanism
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Environmental compliance, conforming to environmental laws, regulations, standards and other requirements
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Regulatory compliance
In general, compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law. Compliance has traditionally been explained by reference to the deterrence theory, according to which punishing a behavior will decrease the viol ...
, adherence to standards, regulations, and other requirements
* Compliance with
web standards
See also
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Governance, risk management, and compliance
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