When a physician quotes a blood pressure, to what does this relate?
1 Answer
Blood pressure is measured in
Explanation:
Historically, columns of mercury (or even water) were used for pressure measurement. The difference in heights of the columns represented the difference in pressure. A dense liquid such as mercury gives measurements convenient to the experimentalist (
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