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Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon in which the viscosity of blood changes with the diameter of the tube it travels through, when the diameter is between 10 and 300 micrometers.

Word forms

Fåhræus-Lindqvist effect Fåhræus-Lindqvist effects

Etymology

Named after Swedish scientists Robin Fåhræus and Johan Torsten Lindqvist who first reported the effect.

Related words

Fåhræus effect
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