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Drop in mean vascular pressure between different segments of the arterial and venous portions of the isolated dog lung as measured by micropuncture technique. Note the small decrease in pressure as pulmonary arterial diameter decreases compared with the large drop in resistance between precapillary arterioles and post-capillary venuoles. Adapted by permission from Reference 1.
