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Index
preload, 79, 81, 82, 175
pressure gradient, 41, 63, 64, 65, 120,
pressure transducer, 13,92, 101, 214,
pressure-diameter relation, 50,
5
I,
241
pressure-volume relation, 8 1, 83, 85,
87, 137
propagation constant, 100, 103, 104,
105, 106, 107, 108, 109, I41
pulmonary circulation,
5,
7, 15, 19
pulse transit time, 10
1
pulse transmission, 12, 13, 18, 91, 141,
140, 185,201,203,206
215,216,217,221
157, 158, 160, 164, 166,
188,
208,
210
P-wave, 244
radial artery, 1
radial strain, 26, 27, 28, 48, 233
receptors, 35, 36, 37, 38
red blood cell, 9, 10, 33, 34,
35,
73,
reflected wave, 97, 101, 102, 103, 105,
reflection coefficient, 105, 116, 117,
196,228
106, 110, 111, 115, 116, 118, 119
118, 119, 158, 160, 161, 162, 165,
166
reflection site, 99, 110, 119, 120
resonance frequency, 21 8,220
Reynolds number, 10,45,46, 73,74,
75,154,200
R-wave, 244
scaling laws, 44
shear stress, 12, 72, 73, 152, 154, 156,
173,225
similarity, 44, 45, 115
smooth muscle, 3, 9, 10, 20, 23, 24, 28,
29, 36, 39, 173, 174, 175, 192, 196,
197,200,201,207
sphere, 14
spring-mass system, 2 15
Starling’s law, 175
steady flow, 7, 46, 63, 64, 132, 140,
151, 156, 166, 167, 170, 187, 201,
206,207,208
stenosis, 9, 67, 156, 157, 181
step response, 2
19
storage reservoir, 6, 19, 173
strain,
25,26,27,28,46,47,48,49,
52,
122,176, 190,204,205,233
stress, 10, 11,25,46,47,48,49, 52,53,
72, 73, 122, 126, 152, 154, 156,
157, 173, 176,204,205, 222, 224,
225
stroke volume, 6, 81, 82, 83, 84,
92,
131, 175,207,241,242
sympathetic nervous system, 36
systolic pressure, 81, 84, 86, 87, 92,
taper, 18,21, 22, 23, 141
temporary assist device, 234, 235
thermodilution, 13, 214, 232
thick-walled, 1
I,
130
thin-walled, 18, 123, 174
time constant, 49, 53, 84, 134
time domain,
10,
94, 97, 1 1 1, 1 18
time-dependent, 70, 152
time-varying compliance, 85, 88, 89,
tonometer, 181, 225
Torricelli’s equation, 69
T-shaped, 149, 150, 194
turbulence, 46, 74, 155
ultrasound, 98, 181, 227, 228, 229, 234
underdamped, 2 17,2 18,2 19,22
1
uniform collapse, 191
uniform vessel, 18, 108
vascular branching, 12, 22, 93, 14
1,
119, 133, 134, 173,221,222,243
213,242
143, 157, 158, 159, 161, 164, 165,
166, 170
vascular hypertrophy, 9
vascular sounds, 222, 223
vascular stiffness, 12
vascular tree, 3,4, 9, 14, 18, 20, 89, 94,
144, 148, 196
vasoactivity, 39, 40
vasoconstriction, 3, 36, 39, 40, 99, 112,
113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 172,
I73
116, 117, 118,211
vasodilation, 38, 99, 112, 113, 115,
