If you lined up all the blood vessels in your body, they'd be 60 thousand miles long. And every day, they carry the equivalent of over two thousand gallons of blood to the body's tissues. What effect does this pressure have on the walls...

Learn about the components and measurement of arterial blood pressure, as well as the variables affecting blood flow and blood pressure in this learning exercise.

By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the concept of pressure in the human body; explain systolic and diastolic blood pressures; and describe pressures in the eye, lungs, spinal column, bladder, and skeletal system.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The health of your whole body depends on the good health of your cardiovascular system. One measure of the health of your cardiovascular system is blood pressure....

By the end of this section, you will be able to define gauge pressure and absolute pressure and to understand the working of aneroid and open-tube barometers.

From a chapter on Fluid Statics in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter covers the different types of fluid pressures in the human body and how they are measured. Includes problems and exercises.

A comprehensive set of virtual experiment assignments where students explore the roles of blood pressure and heart rate in maintaining a balanced cardiovascular system. Includes background information, glossary, online notebook, and...

Students learn the structure and function of the cardiac muscle and study the components of the conducting system that distributes electrical impulses through the heart during the cardiac cycle.