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Science 12 October 1962:
Vol. 138. no. 3537, pp. 140 - 141
DOI: 10.1126/science.138.3537.140
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Jamin and "True" Meniscal Resistances: A Single Meniscus Apparatus

Henry R. Jacobs 1

1 Department of Medicine, Northwestern University, and Division of Medicine, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois

Meniscal resistance to movement of aqueous liquids in glass capillary tubes is due either to soiled walls or to dissolved surface-active agents. With the latter there are sharp maxima at concentrations of frac14 to frac12 gram per liter. Blood serum and plasma exhibit significant "true" meniscal resistance.

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