From Compliance to Moduli: Clarifying Basic Mechanical Properties of Biological Tissues

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2025

Publication Title

Advances in Physiology Education

Abstract

In physiology education, terms such as compliance, distensibility, capacitance, elastance, elasticity, etc. refer to the mechanical properties of biological tissues but are often a source of confusion in teaching and learning. This article identifies three main causes underlying the confusion:

Volume

49

Issue

3

First Page

651

Last Page

658

DOI

10.1152/advan.00032.2025

ISSN

1522-1229

PubMed ID

40375672

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