How to Tell Crystal From Glass. Here are some quick tips on how to distinguish classic crystal from plain glass. 1  Hold up a glass to the light. 2  If the glass acts as a prism and you see a rainbow you are holding crystal. 3  If not, it is just plain glass. 4  When struck, crystal produces a musical ring.
Blood pressure is controlled by tiny muscles that line the inside of your blood vessels. These muscles allow your arteries to operate like soft rubber tubes, that expand with each beat of your heart. When these muscles throughout the vascular system [the arteries and veins that carry blood] expand, blood pressure drops.
Control of the rate and strength of cardiac contractions is also under the predominant control of the sympathetic nervous system. Thus, a fall in blood pressure resulting from traumatic injury causing blood loss is sensed by pressure-sensitive parts of the arteries called baroreceptors.