PHYSIOLOGY
SYNAPTIC PHYSIOLOGY
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Question
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The amount of blood pumped exceeds that of blood produced
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Blood could easily be pushed up a limb vein, but not down
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The observation that there were pores between the left and right atria
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The heart swelled up when arteries were tied in an animal experiment
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Medicine’s 10 Greatest Discoveries, which I co-authored with cardiologist Meyer Friedman, we stated that William Harvey’s discovery of the function of the heart and the circulation of blood was the greatest medical discovery of all time.
Detailed explanation-2: -William Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of blood with the heart acting as a pump. Pressure changes in the left atrium, left ventricle and aorta during the cardiac cycle.
Detailed explanation-3: -William Harvey, (born April 1, 1578, Folkestone, Kent, England-died June 3, 1657, London), English physician who was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea.
Detailed explanation-4: -Yet it was not until the English physician William Harvey wrote his On the Circulation of the Blood (1628) that a viable alternative to Galenic physiology became widely accepted. Harvey supported the Aristotelian notion of the heart. He wrote in 1653: “The heart is situated at the 4th and 5th ribs.