This is about compliance in blood vessels and the heart specifically.
I have looked this up multiple times, and whenever I think I have it, I get another question wrong because I apparently don’t have it down pat yet. I have been told that ‘compliance is the inverse of elasticity’ but that just makes me go through more mental hoops to get to the same answer.
Can someone explain this concept to me? I’ve tried everything short of eating my textbook.
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Compliance = Will it stretch?
Elasticity = Will it snap back?
High compliance and high elasticity mean it will stretch easily to accommodate, and then go back to its shape.
High compliance and low elasticity mean it will stretch easily but after stretching it won’t be as easy to go back to how it was before stretching.
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