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pressures to be in the regions that are closest to the heart.
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If I measured pressure in the aorta,
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and we talked about this last time,
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you would find that pressure varies with time.
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Because pressure is going up and down in the heart,
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that oscillation in pressure with heartbeat gets transmitted into
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the aorta as well and we'll talk in a minute about why that happens.
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If you looked over time an average pressure
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in the aorta would be somewhere between 120 and 80 mmHg,
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so let's just call it 90 here.
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The pressure in the aorta is 90.
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If you think about the whole circuit,