Pulmonary Circulation
Subtitle: From Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Practice (Cardiopulmonary Medicine from Imperial College Press)
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781860942969
Subjects: Anatomy; Cardiovascular medicine; Medical / Nursing; Diseases; Medical; Pulmonary circulation; Physiology; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Cardiology; Blood-vessels; Lungs
First sentence: Michael Servetus (1511-1553) born in Aragon, Spain, is credited with the discovery of the pulmonary circulation, although a 14th century Arabic physician Ibn-an-Nafis, unknown to Servetus, had reached similar conclusions.