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Blood pressure may be reduced with the use of what agent that enlarges the lumen of blood vessels?
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What is blood pressure used to evaluate?
Your systole and diastole (or systolic and diastolic pressure). Systolic pressure is the pressure your blood exerts on blood vessels when your heart pumps out blood while diastolic pressure is the pressure your blood exerts on blood vessels when your heart is at rest(in between pumps). Blood pressure is stated as systolic pressure/diastolic pressure. The normal BP is 120/80 mmHg.
Blood pressure is affected by constriction and dilation of?
Arteries and blood vessels.
The circulation of blood through the vascular system is influenced by?
Blood flow can be affected by such factors as clots and blood pressure which are in turn affected by obesity and genetics.
If you feel dizzy and everything goes black?
What you were experiencing, in doctor speak, is orthostatic hypotension, a sudden drop in blood pressure. Normally, blood vessels constrict to maintain blood pressure and compensate for changes in position, but in some cases the blood vessels don't compensate and, when you stand up, the blood doesn't go to the brain. Basically, the reflexes of the body don't catch up with the blood vessels.
Can your butt cheeks fall asleep?
It's possible. Pressure on the blood vessels can reduce the feeling - when you shift position or stand up, normal blood-flow returns, and the tingle is the blood filling the constricted vessels again.
Is a vasoconstrictor a drug the enlarges blood vessels?
False. "Vaso" refers to vessels and "constrictor" means narrowing.
What is the lowest pressure against the walls of the blood vessels?
No, systolic pressure is the highest pressure against the walls of the blood vessels. Diastolic pressure is the lowest pressure against the walls of the blood vessels.
What blood pressure readings means?
Blood vessels are the part of the circulatory system which transports blood throughout the body.Blood pressure (BP) is the pressure exerted by circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. It means blood pressure is the speed of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels.
Where is blood pressure high?
blood vessels
Which vessels are called capacitance vessels?
Veins are considered capacitance vessels because they collect 60-70% of the blood in systemic circulation. Small arteries and arterioles are considered resistance vessels because they represent where pressure is more greatly reduced.
How blood Vessels length affects blood pressure?
The blood pressure raises when the some blood vessels get narrowed, but this doesn't mean that a person suffers of high blood pressure. When gases compress the diaphragm thus compressing heart which reacts by elevating the blood pressure. But primarily, is the narrowing of some blood vessels the cause of blood pressure to rise on some stressing situations.
Blood pressure is exerted by the blood on the walls of blood vessels as a result of?
force/pressure
What blood vessels have lower blood pressure?
veins.
How are blood pressure and barometric pressure associated?
blood vessels constrict according to barometric pressure
What is the medical term meaning highest pressure against the walls of the blood vessels?
The systolic pressure is the highest pressure measured against the walls of blood vessels.
What is the highest pressure against the blood vessels and also occurs when the ventricles contract?
The highest pressure against the blood vessels is Systolic Pressure, and it occurs when the ventricles contract.
What is blood pressure used to evaluate?
Your systole and diastole (or systolic and diastolic pressure). Systolic pressure is the pressure your blood exerts on blood vessels when your heart pumps out blood while diastolic pressure is the pressure your blood exerts on blood vessels when your heart is at rest(in between pumps). Blood pressure is stated as systolic pressure/diastolic pressure. The normal BP is 120/80 mmHg.
