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Blood pressure

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  1. refers to the force exerted by circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels, and constitutes one of the principal vital signs

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    created by user picturefactobot on December 11, 2008
  2. The pressure of the circulating blood decreases as blood moves through arteries, arterioles, capillaries, and veins

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  3. generally refers to arterial pressure, i.e., the pressure in the larger arteries, the blood vessels that take blood away from the heart

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  4. most commonly measured via a sphygmomanometer, which historically used the height of a column of mercury to reflect the circulating pressure (see Non-invasive measurement)

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  5. Today blood pressure values are still reported in millimetres of mercury (mmHg), though aneroid and electronic devices do not use mercury

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