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1 online resource : color illustrations |
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Front Cover -- Gas Bubble Dynamics in the Human Body -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- About the authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Bubbles in the body: The not so good, the bad, and the ugly -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Causes and origins of bubbles in the body -- 1.3 Circulation fundamentals -- 1.4 Cell membranes and microparticles -- 1.5 Transport and exchange of gases -- 1.6 Bubble physics, anatomy, and biology -- 1.6.1 Bubble shape and anatomy -- 1.7 Forces promoting and inhibiting bubble movement |
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1.8 How do bubbles cause symptoms, signs, and damage?1.9 Protections against bubbles -- 1.10 The formation and growth of bubbles -- 1.10.1 Effect on gas dissolution rates -- 1.10.2 Effect of a coating or "skin" on the stability of small gas bubbles -- 1.10.3 Experimental detection of MBs -- 1.11 Patent foramen ovale and mechanisms for bypassing the pulmonary bubble filter -- 1.11.1 Overview -- 1.12 Tissue gas content and "fast" or "slow" tissues -- 1.13 MBs, MPs, BBs, SBs, NBs, and NPs in gas-bubble disease -- 1.14 Genomic responses to gas bubbles |
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1.15 Composition of gas within bubbles1.16 A gas-fluid and gas-tissue interface is not harmful to all tissues -- 1.17 Prevention of bubbles in the body -- Appendix A Appendix on pressures and tensions -- Gas tension -- Water vapor pressure and tension -- References -- Chapter 2: Driving force of gas-bubble growth and dissolution -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Background -- 2.3 The driving force of gas-bubble growth -- 2.4 A general measure of dissolved solute volatility from solution -- 2.6 Surface tension -- 2.7 Mechanical, chemical, and thermodynamic equilibrium |
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2.8 Supersaturation and undersaturation functions for gas mixtures2.9 Empirical confirmation -- Problems -- References -- Chapter 3: Rates of gas-bubble growth and dissolution in simple liquids -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Diffusion equation -- 3.3 Solutions of the Diffusion and Laplace equations -- 3.4 Reduction to a finite system -- 3.5 Expressions for ('c/'r)R, t for two three-region models -- 3.6 Empirical confirmation -- Problems -- Further Reading -- References -- Chapter 4: Estimating the radii and lifetimes of small gas bubbles |
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4.1 Introduction4.2 Diffusion models for solute transport around a gas bubble in a simple liquid -- 4.3 Expressions for ('c/'r)R, t -- 4.3.1 The Diffusion equation -- 4.3.2 The Laplace equation -- 4.4 Analytic working equations for the LHF2, LHF3, and LHV3 models for a fixed ambient pressure -- 4.4.1 LHF2 -- 4.4.2 LHF3 -- 4.4.3 LHV3 -- 4.5 Variable ambient pressure -- 4.6 Numerical working equations for the four models based on Dirichlet boundary conditions, Henry's law at the bubble surfac -- 4.7 Application of Neumann versus Dirichlet boundary conditions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Bubbles -- Dynamics.
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Human body -- Microbiology.
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Human beings.
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Humans
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Gases -- blood
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Homo sapiens (species)
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MEDICAL -- Physiology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
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Bubbles -- Dynamics
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Human body -- Microbiology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Goldman, Saul, editor.
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Solano-Altamirano, J. Manuel, editor.
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LeDez, Kenneth M., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780128105207 |
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0128105208 |
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