a. Define blood pressure. Differentiate between systolic and diastolic blood pressure. b. What is the normal blood pressure value for an adult?

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Hello, everyone and welcome to today's video. So the reading which refers to the lower number in a blood pressure reading and represents the pressure in the arteries during heart relaxation is called as the answer choice. A. We have diastolic blood pressure, B, arterial blood pressure, C capillary blood pressure, and the systolic blood pressure. So remember that usually when we take a reading of blood pressure, we get something like 120/80. They're asking for these 80 for this lower number in blood pressure reading. Let's go over each of these answer choices so that we may solve the problem beginning by answer choice C you need to be capillary blood pressure. Well, the reason why we're looking at this first is because capillary blood pressure is a made up term, it doesn't really exist. So we're going to cancel it out, then we're going to have B which is arterial blood pressure. This arterial blood pressure is a general term for the pressure by the blood as it flows through the arteries. However, it is not the reading that we are looking for. So we're also going to cancel it out and we have the which is systolic blood pressure. Now, the systolic blood pressure refers to this higher number is going to be the 20 in a blood pressure reading. And it represents the pressure in the arteries during heart contraction, not heart relaxation. So we can cancel it out as well. And finally, we have diastolic blood pressure. So just like systolic blood pressure is going to be the higher number, diastolic blood pressure is going to be this 80. It is going to be this lower number that we were looking for. And it is the pressure found in the heart during or in the arteries during heart relaxation. Therefore, we can highlight answer choice, a diastolic blood pressure as the final answer to your question, I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next.