Anaesthesia in the fourth dimension. Is biological scaling relevant to veterinary anaesthesia?

Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 2-5

  Morris, Tim ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allometric equation; Anaesthesia; Biology; Scaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862997688     PISSN: 14672987     EISSN: 14672995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-2995.2000.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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