blood flow
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbloodandflow
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blood
noun[U]
uk/blʌd/us/blʌd/
the red liquid that is sent around the body by the heart, and carries oxygen and important substances to organs and tissue, and removes ...
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flow
noun
uk/fləʊ/us/floʊ/
the movement of something in ...
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(Definition ofbloodandflowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofblood flow
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Although vasodilatation may improve peripheralbloodflow, it may also cause shunting which can result in regional tissue hypoxia.
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Tumour vessels are extremely leaky and tortuous, which impedes uniformbloodflow, oxygenation and drug delivery in tumours.
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Diabetic ulcers are often caused by recurrent pressure in neuropathic extremities and may be complicated by diminishedbloodflowin small and larger vessels.
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Increased risk because of arrhythmias, sluggishbloodflowin abnormal circulation and metallic prosthetic valves.
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Obstruction to pulmonary venous return obscured by decreased pulmonarybloodflow.
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This can have a profound effect on uterine and placentalbloodflow, particularly in combination with aortocaval compression by the gravid uterus.
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However, suchbloodflowmeasurements reflect the actual neural activity only quite indirectly and with coarse spatial and temporal resolution.
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A problem, in the avoidance of surgery, is the maintenance of pulmonarybloodflowin the neonates.
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Cerebralbloodflowdecreased slightly from 30 to 120 minutes of non-pulsatile perfusion at low rates of flow.
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These axial velocities provide a velocity profile at a particular cross-section of the pulmonary artery, thus describingbloodflowcharacteristics across the vessel.
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The pulmonary arteries were circled and snared down after institution of cardiopulmonary by-pass, to promote progradebloodflowinto the anomalous right coronary artery.
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For every matched pair, the co-registered and normalizedbloodflowimages were subtracted.
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A small roller pump is placed on the inlet aspect of the ultrafilter to increase thebloodflowto approximately 100 to 300 ml/min.
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The expansion is simply due to the weakness of the arterial wall, this itself having the additional consequence of factors initiated by thebloodflow.
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Nobloodflowto the cerebral cortex could be demonstrated.
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The effect of altering pump flow rate on cerebralbloodflowand cerebral metabolism in neonates, infants and children.
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The absence of hepaticbloodflowin the pulmonary circulation has been postulated in their pathogenesis.
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Of 4 patients who had successful balloon dilation, three were shown by nuclear perfusion scans to have normalized their distribution of pulmonarybloodflow.
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Changes in skeletal muscle include better capillarization and increased concentration of mitochondrial enzymes which allow the muscle to extract more oxygen from itsbloodflow.
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