Blood Pressure

 

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As blood is pushed through your arteries by the beating of your heart, it also pushes against the walls of the arteries.

This is the pressure you measure when you put a blood pressure cuff around someone's arm; the pressure the blood exerts against the wall of the artery.

 

 

 
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