Whole Text Index: Blood Pressure

Introduction - Blood Vessel Morphology (Page 1)
Blood Vessel Composition (Pages 2-3)

Compliance:

- Hooke's Law (Page 4)

- Young's Modulus (Page 5)

- Length-Tension Curves (Page 6)

- Definition of Compliance (Pages 7-8)

- of Artery and Vein (Pages 9-10)

- When decreased? (Page 11)

Pulse wave (Pages 12-14)
Aging effects (Page 15)
Normal changes in B.P. (Pages 16-17)
History of B.P. measurement (Pages 18)
B.P. measurement (Pages 19-22)
Pulse wave components (Pages 23-24)

Veins (Pages 25-30)

Venous pressure (Pages 31-33)

Right, above: Corneille Jean Francois Heymans, control of blood pressure, Nobel Prize, 1938.

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