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单词 afterload
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Definition of afterload in English:

afterload

noun ˈɑːftələʊdˈaftələʊd
  • Physiology. Originally (in experimental studies of muscle contraction): a load added to a strip of muscle after contraction has begun. In later use also: the force that a ventricle of the heart must generate in order to eject blood (determined largely by vascular resistance).

verb ˈɑːftələʊdˈaftələʊd
  • 1with object Physiology. To subject (a muscle) to an afterload.

  • 2with object Medicine. In radiotherapy: to load (a previously implanted receptacle) with a radioactive substance; to insert (a radioactive substance) into such a receptacle.

Origin

Mid 19th century (in an earlier sense). From after- + load
late 19th century; earliest use found in Brain
: a journal of neurology. Probably partly from afterload, and partly from after- + load.

 
 

Definition of afterload in US English:

afterload

noun
  • Physiology. Originally (in experimental studies of muscle contraction): a load added to a strip of muscle after contraction has begun. In later use also: the force that a ventricle of the heart must generate in order to eject blood (determined largely by vascular resistance).

verb
  • 1with object Physiology. To subject (a muscle) to an afterload.

  • 2with object Medicine. In radiotherapy: to load (a previously implanted receptacle) with a radioactive substance; to insert (a radioactive substance) into such a receptacle.

Origin

Mid 19th century (in an earlier sense). From after- + load<br>late 19th century; earliest use found in Brain: a journal of neurology. Probably partly from afterload, and partly from after- + load.

 
 
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