Pressure sense

... it this way. The vessels on the sending end (arteries) are under higher pressure than the veins, so it would make sense that the arteries are thicker, I think it is the middle layer not the external. Something ...

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... things are the way they exist in the world because of evolutionary pressure. I couldn't think of a good answer to this one, so was just curious ... disadvantage when being compared to someone that has good fashion sense and some new threads. But why? The best thing I can come up with is ...

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The blood pressure is typically measured at systole and diastole, so in that sense it doesn't really matter if your (resting) heart rate is bit faster, the point of measure is that one moment ...

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My professor made this statement and I'm trying to make sense of it, any help would be appreciated. PaCO2 levels dont rise as fast as ... greater diffusibility of CO2 . Does it have to do w/ the different partial pressure gradients of the two gases when loading/unloading at the tissues? I've ...

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... Merkel cells and the Meissner corpuscles associated both with the same sense of touch, and the Pacinian corpuscles with the strong pressure touch ? 4. Is the Brodmann area 28 related to the olfactory system? 5. Is the Brodmann ...

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