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Cardiac Output

"Cardiac Output" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The volume of BLOOD passing through the HEART per unit of time. It is usually expressed as liters (volume) per minute so as not to be confused with STROKE VOLUME (volume per beat).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Cardiac Output" by people in this website by year, and whether "Cardiac Output" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 65 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 7 publications in 2010
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