Physical properties of blood

Physical properties of blood include:
 * blood pressure – the pressure exerted by the blood on the vessel wall
 * osmolality – the total amount of osmotically active particles in 1 kg of solvent weight,
 * osmotic pressure – the pressure, that must be applied to a sulotion to prevent osmosis,
 * oncotic pressure – osmotic pressure of colloidal solution (blood plasma proteins),
 * tonicity – osmolality of the solution in relation to plasma; we differentiate isotonicity, hypertonicity and hypotonicity,
 * viscosity – viscosity of blood, depends mainly on hematocrit,
 * flow – laminar and turbulent,
 * Hagen-Poiseuille law – flow dependence on viscosity and tube proportions,
 * blood flow velocity

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