Pulmonary circulation
Circulación pulmonar de la sangre
- Date
- 1242 · confidence high
- Place
- Al-Mansuri Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
- Credited to
- Ibn al-Nafis
- People
- 👤 Ibn Nafis1215–1288
- Field
- Life & health
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What was discovered
He refuted Galen's interventricular pores and described how blood passes from the right ventricle to the left through the lungs, where it mixes with air. The first description of the pulmonary circulation.
His description was rediscovered in 1924; Michael Servetus (1553) and Realdo Colombo (1559) described it independently in Europe.
What it led to
- Harvey's complete blood circulation
- critical revision of Galen in the Islamic world
- cardiopulmonary physiology
Built on
- Nur al-Din hospital-school (al-Nuri bimaristan)1154
- Galenic anatomy