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When the finger is immersed in water between 0° and 6°C. the initial vasoconstriction is usually, and the subsequent vasoconstrictions are occasionally, sudden in onset and complete in degree.
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The initial vasodilatation is usually rapid in onset.
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It is suggested that the rapidity of these responses may be due to a nervous co-ordination of the vascular elements concerned.
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The substance of a paper read before the Section of Anatomy and Physiology, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, June 2nd, 1951.
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Greenfield, A.D.M., Shepherd, J.T. & Whelan, R.F. Cold vasoconstriction and vasodilatation. Ir J Med Sci 26, 415–419 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02956968
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