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What term is used for Blood pressure during pumping of the heart?
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Systole is the term used for contraction, or pumping, of the heart.
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What moves blood through the blood vessels?
Your heart. Your heart pumps and that moves the blood.
What cause blood to flow through blood vessel?
blood pressure produced by the pumping of the heart
Is blood pressure lower during sleep?
yes,because your body calms down and your heart is not beating so fast so it is not pumping much blood.
What is the relationship between peripheral resistance and blood pressure?
Systolic BP is a measure of blood pressure while the heart is pumping; diastolic BP is a measure of blood pressure while the heart is not pumping. BP is the pressure of the blood on the walls of the blood vessels.
How does blood circulate around the lower arm and hand?
Blood pumps down and through the vessels in your hands by the pressure your heart pumps the blood from your heart. When you blood pressure is low then the blood isn't pumping with enough pressure.
Are the systolic blood pressure pumping pressure?
Yes. The systolic is the pressure exerted against the artey walls when the heart beats.
What do you measure to find how fast the heart is pumping?
the pulse rate.
Can the diastolic pressure ever be higher than the systolic blood pressure?
No The systolic pressure is the highest pressure during the ejection of blood (pumping) from heart. The diastolic pressure is the blood pressure when the ventricles are filling up with blood before pumping the blood out.
How is blood pressure created?
Blood pressure is created by the pressure exerted when circulating blood through blood vessels. The hearts pumping action is the principal cause of blood pressure. One can control blood pressure by not doing strenuous activity.
The pumping organ of the circulatory system is the?
The pumping organ of the circulatory system is the heart. It generates the pressure to move blood through the circulation.
Does blood capallaries have valves?
peripheral veins have valves to help get the blood back up to the heart but arteries do not because they have enough pressure from the pumping of the heart to get the blood out to the body.
What is the difference between systolic pressure and diastolic pressure?
systolic pressure when ventricals are contracting while during diastole they are in relaxed state
