Fundamental Structural Aspects and Features in the Bioengineering of the Gas Exchangers: Comparative Perspectives /
The main objective of this book is to present some of the fundamental structural aspects in the design of respiratory organs while debating and speculating on when, how and why these states were founded. The author's main thesis is that the modern gas exchangers are products of protracted proce...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2002.
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| Series: | Advances in anatomy, embryology, and cell biology ;
163. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Evolution of the respiratory processes
- Metabolic demands and design of gas exchangers
- Themes and principles in design of gas exchangers
- Functional requirements and design of gas exchangers
- Respiratory media versus design of gas exchangers
- Compromises and trade-offs in design of gas exchangers
- Safety factors in the design of gas exchangers
- Malleability, tractability and performance of gas exchangers
- Presentations of the respiratory media in gas exchangers
- Compartmentalization and stratification of the gas exchangers
- Separation of respiratory media in gas exchangers
- Exposure and disposition of respiratory media in gas exchangers
- Pneumocytes, surfactant and design of gas exchangers
- Fractal geometry and design of gas exchangers
- Sheet flow design in the vasculature of gas exchangers
- Summary and conclusion
- Subject index.