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Constriction

The act of constricting.


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Dilation or Constriction

It triggers the constriction. For example when you're wounded and you start losing blood, renal afferent artery constricts and you stop losing more water from your body.

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by miloshic
Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:29 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Dilation or Constriction
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Re: veins (alevel help!)

Veins have no smooth muscle to produce a constriction - it's possible that the constriction produced by surrounding tissues (such as skeletal muscles or dermal tightening) was somehow misconstrued as something the veins were doing. I should warn ...

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by Darby
Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:54 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: veins (alevel help!)
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Views: 905

Re: veins (alevel help!)

"Veno-" is a prefix referring to veins. So when the words either constriction or dilation are added after the prefix, it specifically indicates that it's the vein that constricts or dilates.

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by mcar
Mon Mar 30, 2009 6:54 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: veins (alevel help!)
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Dilation or Constriction

I didn't actually read this anywhere, so i might be wrong, but it would make more sense for it to be constriction. Sympathetic innervation is more for special situations, when you have bigger things to worry about than filtering blood.

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by MrMistery
Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:56 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Dilation or Constriction
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Dilation or Constriction

Does sympathetic nerve trigger the dilation or constriction of renal afferent artery? thx^^

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by whizzbee
Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:40 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Dilation or Constriction
Replies: 3
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