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that are inside our circulatory system so they must be--
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but they're only a fraction of 1 atm, how can that be?
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An atm is 760 mmHg,
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that's the pressure in this room.
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If your blood pressure is 120/80 what does that mean?
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Well, pressure is--we only care about differences in pressure.
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It's relative pressure that matters not the absolute pressure.
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When you say your blood pressure is 120/80 that means
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120 mmHg above Atmospheric;
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80 mmHg above Atmospheric.
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Otherwise our blood vessels would collapse
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because we're surrounded by air that's 760 mmHg,