(n.) An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of the wind; a wind gauge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The velocity of air streams in the paranasal sinus was measured by Laser Doppler Anemometer and the visualization of streams was done by Laser Light Sheet method.
(2) The accuracy of a flush-mounted hot film anemometer probe for wall shear stress measurements in physiological pulsatile flows was evaluated in fully developed pulsatile flow in a rigid straight tube.
(3) The phasic velocity field in the vicinity of the venous anastomosis in a hemodialysis angioaccess arteriovenous fistula loop graft (AVLG) is investigated employing a laser Doppler anemometer (LDA) system.
(4) In 15 persons (seven normal, seven aortic valvular disease, one prosthetic aortic valve), point velocity was measured in the ascending aorta with a hot-film anemometer probe.
(5) Velocity and flow visualization studies were conducted in an adult size pulmonary artery model with varying degrees of valvular stenosis, using a two dimensional laser Doppler anemometer system.
(6) The performance of the Ohio 5400 electronic anemometer and the Ohmeda SE302 heated platinum filament respirometer were assessed in a series of bench tests in which they were incorporated into the patient circuit of a Siemens-Elema Servo 900C ventilator.
(7) Mean and fluctuating velocity profiles were obtained in a pneumatically driven prosthetic ventricle with the laser Doppler anemometer and stress levels estimated.
(8) A two dimensional laser Doppler anemometer system has been used to measure the turbulent shear fields in the immediate downstream vicinity of a variety of mechanical and bioprosthetic aortic heart valves.
(9) Flow visualization and velocity and turbulent shear stress measurements, conducted with a two-dimensional laser Doppler anemometer system, indicated that all tissue valve designs created jet-type flow fields.
(10) Point blood velocity signals obtained with a 1-mm hot-film anemometer needle probe were used to compute Reynolds normal stresses (RNS) by calculation of the turbulent velocity energy of the axial velocity component in the systole.
(11) The velocity distribution was measured for both steady and pulsatile flows with a laser-Doppler-anemometer in a backward scattered way.
(12) Two electronic spirometers which use a hot-wire anemometer to measure air flow were clinically compared with a water-sealed spirometer.
(13) Sniff characteristics were monitored with a hot wire anemometer and an oscilloscope.
(14) Flow visualization and laser Doppler anemometer surveys of the flow field confirmed that the hydrodynamic factors favour lesion development near the stagnation point opposite the anastomotic toe, where the momentum of the impinging jet stream, combined with the oscillating wall shear stress generated in the vicinity of the stagnation point, acts in both directions.
(15) To examine the advantage of hot-wire anemometer for clinical use, we have checked two types of this tools with respect to reliability and validity.
(16) The purpose of the present study is to examine the qualities and the characteristics of a simple and cheap nasal anemometer.
(17) In gait experiments with one human subject at speeds greater than 0.25 ms-1, the hot film anemometer and a video system predicted speeds within 0.083 ms-1.
(18) Boot-ski dynamometer and skier velocity anemometer data provide 13 channels of max.
(19) The anemometer has satisfactory accuracy and pressure control is adequate.
(20) The resolution of most anemometers is too limited to obtain useful measurements, especially near the blood vessel wall and at branches and bifurcations.
Pyrometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.
(n.) An instrument for measuring degrees of heat above those indicated by the mercurial thermometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) After Josiah invented the pyrometer, a device for measuring higher degrees of heat in kilns, he was elected to the Royal Society in 1783.
(2) Infrared pyrometers have been used in industry to record the temperature of mechanical objects at a distance.
(3) When using an electric casting machine, be certain that the pyrometer is correct.
(4) Herein we describe a dilatometer that consists of a low-mass infrared furnace for rapid heating or cooling, an optical pyrometer, and a laser interferometer.
(5) In rectus abdominis myocutaneous island flaps (3.0 x 1.5 cm) of rats (Uje:WIST) skin surface temperature was measured by an infrared pyrometer for monitoring flap viability following experimentally induced blood flow insufficiency.