We present first phenomenological characterizations of the pressure-volume relationships (a) in veins excised from dogs under anesthesia and (b) in thinwalled latex tubes. We measured their cross-sectional areas and perimeters from cinefluorographic enlargements during distension. From flattened to circu-
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