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Vascular Resistance

"Vascular Resistance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The force that opposes the flow of BLOOD through a vascular bed. It is equal to the difference in BLOOD PRESSURE across the vascular bed divided by the CARDIAC OUTPUT.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Vascular Resistance" by people in this website by year, and whether "Vascular Resistance" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 29 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2006
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