A text-book of physiology for medical students and physicians . retina from the nodal pointof the eye. We have thenthe proportion ab : an :: AB:An, or ab = AB * an- AnAccording to this method,Vierordt calculated that thevelocity of the blood in thehuman capillaries is equal toabout to mm. persecond. In the arteries, more- ^it^- : The nodal point of the eye. See text. diminishes the farther one goes from the heart,—that is, the smaller the artery,—andreaches its minimum when the arteries pass into the , Volkmann reports for the horse the following figures: Ca-rotid, 300


A text-book of physiology for medical students and physicians . retina from the nodal pointof the eye. We have thenthe proportion ab : an :: AB:An, or ab = AB * an- AnAccording to this method,Vierordt calculated that thevelocity of the blood in thehuman capillaries is equal toabout to mm. persecond. In the arteries, more- ^it^- : The nodal point of the eye. See text. diminishes the farther one goes from the heart,—that is, the smaller the artery,—andreaches its minimum when the arteries pass into the , Volkmann reports for the horse the following figures: Ca-rotid, 300 mms.; maxillary, 232; metatarsal, 56 mms. In the veinsalso the same fact holds. The smaller the vein—that is, the nearerit is to the capillary region—the smaller is its velocity, the maxi-.


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