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“Biorheology” is the study of the flow and deformation of materials of biological origin and the behavior in flow and deformation of these materials in their biological context. The aims of biorheology are thus, seemingly, not very different from the aims of rheological investigation in general. This is true, however, only superficially. What distinguishes the field is the special relationship which exists between motion and life. It is a sine qua non that a living system moves or deforms, i.e. alters its structure or disposition within a time span which falls well within our own time scale of observation. The biorheologist thus wants to understand why a biological system responds to its driving forces in just the particular way it does. He wants to interpret the essence of the life response. This on the one hand, but on the other there are biological systems, viruses and enzymes, which can be crystallized, seeds or pollens, which can be stored for centuries and then resume biological activity. These materials are not alive, but only potentially so. Yet they are of interest rheologically, not because of their origin, but because their structure and functional character have implication for the living system, of which they may form a part.
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Silberberg, A. (1980). Biorheology. In: Astarita, G., Marrucci, G., Nicolais, L. (eds) Rheology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3740-9_2
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