Medical Definition of Countercurrent exchanger

1. A system in which heat or chemicals passively diffuse across a membrane separating two countercurrent exchanger streams so that at each end the fluid leaving along one side of the membrane nearly resembles, in temperature or composition, the fluid entering the other; e.g., the venae comites in the arms serve as a countercurrent exchanger exchanger, the arterial blood serving to rewarm the cooler venous blood. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Countercurrent Exchanger

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countercountermeasures
countercoup
countercoups
countercries
countercry
countercultural
counterculturalism
counterculturalist
counterculturalists
counterculturally
counterculture
countercultures
countercurrent
countercurrent distribution
countercurrent exchanger (current term)
countercurrent mechanism
countercurrent multiplier
countercurrents
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countercurses
countercyclical
countercyclicality
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counterdefense
counterdefenses
counterdemand
counterdemands
counterdemonstration
counterdemonstrations

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