Cardiovascular System

This page last updated July 19, 2007

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Review Questions:
  1. Why does changing the radius/diameter of a vessel have such a large effect on the rate of blood flow?
  2. Why did we only change one factor at a time during the simulations?
  3. From the equation, we can deduce that vessel length has an inverse relationship with blood flow.  What does this mean?
  4. If a person with normal blood volume receives a large infusion of fluid, what will happen to the blood flow?

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