Physical properties of blood

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Physical properties of blood include:

  • blood pressure – the pressure exerted by the blood on the vessel wall
  • osmolality – the total amount of osmotically active particles in 1 kg of solvent weight,
  • osmotic pressure – the pressure, that must be applied to a sulotion to prevent osmosis,
    • oncotic pressure – osmotic pressure of colloidal solution (blood plasma proteins),
  • tonicity – osmolality of the solution in relation to plasma; we differentiate isotonicity, hypertonicity and hypotonicity,
  • viscosity – viscosity of blood, depends mainly on hematocrit,
  • flow – laminar and turbulent,
  • Hagen-Poiseuille law – flow dependence on viscosity and tube proportions,
  • blood flow velocity


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  • GANONG, William F. Přehled lékařské fyziologie. 20. edition. Galén, 2005. 890 pp. pp. 495. ISBN 80-7262-311-7.