Fick principle

Fick principle
Fick principle 'fik- n a generalization in physiology which states that blood flow is proportional to the difference in concentration of a substance in the blood as it enters and leaves an organ and which is used to determine cardiac output from the difference in oxygen concentration in blood before it enters and after it leaves the lungs and from the rate at which oxygen is consumed called also Fick method
Fick Adolf Eugen (1829-1901)
German physiologist. A professor of physiology, Fick was an advocate of the school of physiology that sought to determine quantitatively the fundamental capabilities of the organism's components and then explain these on the basis of general physicochemical laws of nature. Fick did research in fields of notable diversity: molecular physics, including the diffusion of water and gases, porous diffusion, endosmosis, and filtration; hydrodynamics as applied to the motion of fluids in rigid and/or elastic vessels; the origin and measurement of bioelectric phenomena; optics; the theory of heat in physics and physiology; and <

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a restatement of the law of conservation of mass used in making indirect measurements: the amount of a substance taken up or released by an organ is the product of the blood flow to the organ and the concentration difference of the substance between the arterial and venous systems. It is usually applied as the Fick method (q.v.) or one of the indicator dilution methods (q.v.) to determine cardiac output.

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