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2:24am April 28, 2013
post-mitotic: busted capillary you’d think this might happen pretty often, considering how small and pathetic capillaries seem compared to their hunky muscular relatives, but nope let me introduce you to this little trick, the Law of LaPlace: tension exerted on the wall of a vessel = pressure x radius guess how small the radius of a capillary is? how low the pressure is? yep (physiology win) colored SEM credit:  Steve Gschmeissner

post-mitotic:

busted capillary

you’d think this might happen pretty often, considering how small and pathetic capillaries seem compared to their hunky muscular relatives, but nope

let me introduce you to this little trick, the Law of LaPlace:

tension exerted on the wall of a vessel = pressure x radius

guess how small the radius of a capillary is? how low the pressure is?

yep

(physiology win)

colored SEM

credit:  Steve Gschmeissner

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    Bast. Calculating tension in thick-walled vessels and stacked vessels and finding failure points and and… Sudden...
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    Omg an equation!!!!!’ Yummy! Science is teh nomz for mah brainz!
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    busted capillary credit: Steve Gschmeissner