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Your body responds to this damage by increasing the blood flow in the capillary bed of the dermis to bring in cells to repair the damage.
9) Due to the relative high pressure kon the arterial side of the circulation, this blood mixture contains a relatively greater proportion of blood from the arteriole side of the capillary bed than from the venule side; and, thus, a "capillary-blood" sample obtained by skin puncture approximates closer to arterial blood than venous blood.
This spectrometer utilizes three light wavelengths (680, 720,760 nm) and the absorbance of each with respect to hemoglobin to derive a relative value of the amount of hemoglobin flowing through the thenar muscle capillary bed 25 This device is self-calibrating, though a standardized control device was provided by the company in order to assure that the device was operating within the normal parameters established by the manufacturer.
 
 
 
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