Cardiovascular Physiology
Edition: 5 edition
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange
Published: November 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780071388641
Subjects: Regional physiology; Cardiovascular System Physiology; Science; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Anatomy; Cardiology; Physiology; Medical / Physiology; Life Sciences - Anatomy & Physiology
First sentence: A nineteenth-century French physiologist, Claude Bernard (1813-1878), first recognized that all higher organisms actively and constantly strive to prevent the external environment from upsetting the conditions necessary for life within the organism.