Sentence examples for blood exchange from inspiring English sources

The most important mechanism in cetacean thermoregulation is the development of countercurrent blood exchange, an adaptation that allows the animal to either conserve or dissipate heat as needed.

Their observed system of blood exchange seems stable, undisrupted by potential free-riders.

Sheep were assigned to either stepwise bleeding (n = 8) or blood exchange with HES 130/0.4 (n = 8).

The catheters used in ECMO for blood exchange are referred to as 'cannulas', a term used in this context to avoid confusion with other vascular catheters.

We did not provide a whole blood exchange control, as these controls had been performed previously without any effect on tissue oxygen measurements relative to time-based controls [49].

Secondary goal: Fifty-two admissions for acute chest syndrome (59.1 %) occurred; 43 patients (82.7 %) received mechanical ventilation (76.9 % exclusively noninvasive); 9 (17.3 %) none; 53 % received blood transfusion (21.7 % before, 31.3 % in our unit) and 47 % blood exchange; mean admission C-reactive protein level was 144 ± 76 mg/l.

Human lungs hold 500 million miniature compartments where the blood exchanges gases with the air.

The amount of blood exchanged to reach desired levels of hematocrit of about 0.15, 0.10, and 0.05 in each step was estimated as previously referred [12].

Capillaries are organized into capillary beds in tissues, it is here that blood exchanges oxygen for carbon dioxide waste.

Because we're a bunch of prudes, they're scared of disclosing their vampire status to doctors, who are encouraging the public to become more accepting so these vamps and their donors will discuss their blood exchanges with their physicians.

To quantitatively represent tissue perfusion, perfusion rate (%/min) was defined as the fraction of blood exchanged per minute in the vascular volume of the ROI.