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Let us consider the cardiovascular system as a simple hydraulic circuit, where there is a pump (heart) with a rhythmic activity (systole → diastole → systole …) that pushes a liquid (blood) into a tube (aorta), which divides over and over again (peripheral arteries → arterioles → capillaries) to be able to reach the farthest extremes (tissues).
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Salvi, P. (2012). Mean Arterial Pressure. In: Pulse Waves. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2439-7_2
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