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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Microcirculation. 2024 Jan 24;31(3):e12845. doi: 10.1111/micc.12845

Table 3.

Table of variables for Pries’s in vitro viscosity models [42,43]

Symbol Definition Units Value
μvM Apparent viscosity Modified cP F(dia, Hd)
μvitro Apparent viscosity Original cP F(dia, Hd)
D Vessel diameter μm Known scalar
Hd Discharge hematocrit Vol% Unknown scalar
μ45 Viscosity at Hd =0.45 cP F(dia, Hd)
μplasma Plasma viscosity cP 1.0