Stress distribution in lungs: a model of pulmonary elasticity.

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Summary

The principal functional risk that it entails is increase in capillary transmural pressure in regions which become subjected to abnormally high outward-acting stress, and in the appropriate sign to reduce the nonuniformity.

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1970-05-01
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Elasticity (physics), Lung, Medicine, Cardiology, Internal medicine

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