A retrograde flow wave into the pulmonary vein (AR wave) occurs during atrial contraction and its amplitude and duration are related to LV diastolic pressure, LA compliance and heart rate. See fig.8 for the timing correlates of this waveform
Corpus Delicti. Corpus delicti is the legal term, which refers to the body of the offense or the essence of the crime. Most literally, corpus delicti is the term used to refer to the actual victimâs body in a murder case. Corpus delicti is also a term that can be used to mean any material evidence of a crime or objective proof in a criminal case. The laws of corpus delicti relate to what must be proven in a case to elicit an acquittal or conviction.
A bile canaliculus is an extremely narrow passageway within the liver. Some people describe a bile canaliculus as an ultra-thin tube, but this not entirely accurate, as bile canaliculi are actually grooves formed by variations in the faces of liver cells. Its primary function is to collect and transport the bile produced by hepatocytes, or liver cells. There are thousands of canaliculi within the liver. Under normal circumstances, a bile canaliculus generally is about one micrometer, or one millionth of a meter, in diameter. By comparison, a typical red blood cell has a diameter of around six to eight micrometers.