Blood in Motion

• Main Author: Noordergraaf, Abraham (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine > History.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; History of Medicine.

Blood in Motion is a textbook in Cardiovascular Science. It sets out to introduce, entice and explain the cardiovascular system to the reader using a classical system in teaching: anatomy, physiology, general operation and specific systems. It is specifically designed to support the interests of stu...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: Synoptic Reviews of Thinking in Circulatory Physiology
• Synoptic Reviews Of Cardiovascular Science From Different Approaches
• The Cardiovascular System and its Modes of Operation
• PART II: Circulatory Sub-Systems
• The Venous System
• The Heart
• Transmission of Arterial Signals, Venous Nonlinearity, and Body Movement
• The Microcirculation
• The Lymphatic System
• PART III: Impedence Defined Flow and the Closed Loop
• The Closed System
• Maintenance of the Circulation and Impedance-Defined Flow
• Circulatory Control
• Models of Cardiovascular Subsystems Yielding the Closed Circulatory Loop.-.