Vascular Capacitance
"Vascular Capacitance" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The measure of a BLOOD VESSEL's ability to increase the volume of BLOOD it holds without a large increase in BLOOD PRESSURE. The vascular capacitance is equal to the change in volume divided by the change in pressure.
| Descriptor ID |
D018924
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G09.330.380.906
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