Pulmonary Circulation
Subtitle: From Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Practice (Cardiopulmonary Medicine from Imperial College Press)
Contributors: West John B. (Foreword)
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781860942655
Subjects: Anatomy; Cardiovascular medicine; Physiology; Respiratory Therapy; Lungs; Medical / Nursing; Pulmonary circulation; Medical; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Allied Health Services - Respiratory Therapy; Cardiology; Blood-vessels; Diseases
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.