Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Circulatory and Respiratory Physiological Phenomena > Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena > Hemodynamics > Vascular Capacitance

Preferred term

Vascular Capacitance  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Related concepts

Note

  • do not confuse with VASCULAR RESISTANCE, opposition to blood flow in a vasc bed

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 96

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018924

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 2/22/95, last modified 7/8/08