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Bainbridge reflex

Bainbridge reflex (F. And. Bainbridge, English physiologist, 1876-1921; lat. reflexus – turned back, reflected) – a viscerovisceral reflex: increase in frequency and force of reductions of heart, because of increase in pressure in mouths of venas cava.

 
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