Terms
- Red blood cell
- A type of cell in your body found in the blood whose function it is to carry oxygen to all the tissues of the body
- Resistance
- The opposing force to the flow of a fluid, such as blood
- Right heart (cardiac) catheterization
- A procedure during which a catheter (small flexible tube) is advanced from a vein in you arm or leg to the right side of the heart and into the pulmonary arteries in order to measure pressure