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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2002 Nov;283(5):H2140–H2150. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00462.2002

Fig. 9.

Fig. 9

Schematic representation of how a highly nonlinear pressure-volume curve embodies superposition of consecutive viscoelastic (time dependent) responses to successively imposed pressure steps. ΔV(t), time-dependent change in volume.