Critical closing pressure — is the internal pressure at which a blood vessel collapses and closes completely. If blood pressure falls below critical closing pressure, then the vessels collapse. This happens during the measurement of blood pressure with a sphygmomanometer.… … Wikipedia
Critical exponent — Critical exponents describe the behaviour of physical quantities near continuous phase transitions. It is believed, though not proven, that they are universal, i.e. they do not depend on the details of the physical system, but only on the… … Wikipedia
Critical Path (book) — Critical Path 1st edition … Wikipedia
Critical social work — is the application of social work from a critical theory perspective. Critical social work seeks to address social injustices, as opposed to focusing on individual people s problems. Critical theories explain social problems as arising from… … Wikipedia
Critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency — (CIRCI) is a form of adrenal insufficiency in critically ill patients who have blood corticosteroid levels which are inadequate for the severe stress response they experience. Combined with decreased glucocorticoid receptor sensitivity and tissue … Wikipedia
Critical dimension — For the minimum feature size in photolithography, see Photolithography. In the renormalization group analysis of phase transitions in physics, a critical dimension is the dimensionality of space at which the character of the phase transition… … Wikipedia
Critical phenomena — In physics, critical phenomena is the collective name associated with the physics of critical points. Most of them stem from the divergence of the correlation length, but also the dynamics slows down. Critical phenomena include scaling relations… … Wikipedia
Critical Depth — This article is about the Oceanography term. For the video game, see Critical Depth (video game). In biological oceanography, Critical Depth is defined as a hypothesized surface mixing depth at which phytoplankton growth is precisely matched by… … Wikipedia
Critical band — The term critical band, introduced by Harvey Fletcher in the 1940s, referred to the frequency bandwidth of the then loosely defined auditory filter. Psychophysiologically, beating and auditory roughness sensations can be linked to the inability… … Wikipedia
Critical mass — This article is about nuclear fission reactions. For other uses, see Critical mass (disambiguation). As part of a re creation of a 1945 criticality accident, a plutonium pit is surrounded by blocks of neutron reflective tungsten carbide. The… … Wikipedia
Critical temperature — The critical temperature, Tc, of a material is the temperature above which distinct liquid and gas phases do not exist. As the critical temperature is approached, the properties of the gas and liquid phases become the same resulting in only one… … Wikipedia