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Windkessel

Windkessel comes from German Windkessel ‘air chamber’.

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentWindkessel‘air chamber’
  2. Englishtodaysame form

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Lineage

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentWindkessel‘air chamber’
  2. Englishtodaysame form

Every English word from German Windkessel

Today it means

noun A model that accounts for the shape of the arterial blood pressure waveform in terms of the interaction between the stroke volume and the compliance of the aorta and large elastic arteries ("Windkessel" vessels) and the resistance of the smaller arteries and arterioles.

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