What's the difference between aneroid and asteroid?
Aneroid
Definition:
(a.) Containing no liquid; -- said of a kind of barometer.
(n.) An aneroid barometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aneroid sphygmomanometers were used exclusively by 34% of physicians, while 5% of physicians relied solely on mercury devices.
(2) In 22 such patients, we compared direct and palpated measurements of systolic pressure, oscilloscopic and aneroid manometric measurements of mean pressure, ECG and palpated measurements of heart-rate and clinical and oximetric assessments of oxygenation.
(3) Blood pressure was measured by the auscultatory method, using an armband apparatus with aneroid capsule; cardiac frequency was measured at the wrist using the simple palpatory method, per 60 seconds.
(4) The AP was measured with an aneroid sphygmomanometer, in mmHg, in orthostatic position, before and after 10, 20, 30 and 60 minutes of treatment.
(5) All the sphygmomanometers in the 7 Health Centres, that is 80 aneroid and 62 mercury ones.
(6) We consider the number of wrongly calibrated aneroid sphygmomanometers to be excessively high.
(7) In order to avoid overinflation of the large cuff, the intracuff pressure (= C-T pressure) should always be measured by means of a four-way stopcock and an aneroid manometer.
(8) The accuracy varied, but each electronic device was considered as accurate as a mechanical aneroid unit available at the same retail stores.
(9) We inspected 230 aneroid sphygmomanometers for physical defects and compared their accuracy against a standard mercury manometer at five different pressure points.
(10) Portable electronic and mechanical aneroid instruments for blood pressure self-monitoring are available, inexpensive, and reasonably accurate.
(11) This device also allows rapid static calibration of electronic pressure transducers across the full range of human blood pressure using a 3 ml syringe as the pressure source and an aneroid gauge, or mercury column, as the pressure standard.
(12) These aneroid gauges are easily calibrated by prehospital personnel using a mercury standard and Y-tube connection.
(13) To investigate the effect of smoking on this test, 12 patients between 22 and 65 years old underwent the following protocol: phase 1--intracavernous injection of 100 mg. papaverine hydrochloride with measurement of intracavernous pressure by puncture with a 19 caliber butterfly needle attached to an aneroid manometer and phase 2--1 week after the initial test the procedure was repeated after the patient smoked 2 cigarettes.
(14) Mercury instruments set at zero are correctly calibrated and can be used as a model for checking aneroid ones.
(15) We conclude that leak testing with a stethoscope and aneroid manometer is sensitive and accurate, and that tracheal tube leak pressure accurately portrays fit between tube and trachea.
(16) Subjects simulated the VM by blowing into an aneroid pressure-gauge meter to 40 mmHg for 10 seconds.
(17) An aneroid manometer attached to a needle during lumbar puncture for spinal anesthesia was used to record the pressure in the epidural space, and an attempt was made to define the moment the needle contacted and indented the dura mater.
(18) We compared leak pressure measurement using a stethoscope and aneroid manometer with a technique using a microphone, pressure transducer, and recorder, and found no differences between the two methods.
(19) Forty percent of aneroid sphygmomanometers were out of calibration by at least 4 mmHg and of these 30% were out by 10 mmHg or more.
(20) A total of 125 aneroid sphygmomanometers in prehospital use were calibrated against a mercury manometer standard.
Asteroid
Definition:
(n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lipase from Geotrichum asteroides appears more resistant to high temperatures and pH changes than the enzyme from Penicillium sp.
(2) This strain of the organism fits a pattern of susceptibility that is rare among N asteroides isolates in general and has been called the type 5 pattern, described as a resistance to broad spectrum cephalosporins, ciprofloxacin, and all aminoglycosides except amikacin.
(3) Within 18-24 h asteroid bodies consisting of an amorphous centre with fine radiating needle crystals were seen.
(4) The study deals with the phagocytosis of Nocardia asteroides (strain Weipheld) and the subsequent intracellular proliferation in peritoneal macrophage cells.
(5) Chalky white colonies, 0.5 to 1.0 mm in diameter, that were subsequently identified as N. asteroides grew well on the BCYE media.
(6) This must be regarded as an antigen-antibody precipitate corresponding to the "asteroid body" of previous authors.
(7) All six N. brasiliensis and six N. otitidis-caviarum were susceptible to gentamicin and minocycline, while all 15 N. asteroides were not.
(8) Microtubules and centrioles were not found in asteroid bodies, although a centriolar field was present in 1 giant cell close to the plasma membrane, completely unrelated to the asteroid body.
(9) Complications are unusual, but of the ones that do occur, infection, particularly with Nocardia asteroides, and fibrosis are the most common.
(10) The somewhat fortuitous isolation of Nocardia asteroides and its significance are discussed.
(11) The pathogenicity of Nocardia asteroides and other strains of different Nocardia species against chicken embryos was investigated.
(12) An acute suppurative abscess characterizes the lesions of N. asteroides.
(13) The inner solar system is filled with dust between the planets, called the zodiacal cloud, which starts out at the asteroid belt and slowly drifts towards the sun.
(14) Ominously, researchers have already discovered that there must be ten times as many potentially dangerous asteroids out there with sizes of the order of tens of metres as previously thought.
(15) With N. asteroides, the direct plating method gave equivocal results.
(16) The organism identified as Nocardia asteroides resisted to sulfonamide and cotrimoxazole but sensitive to chloramphenicaol and streptomycin in vitro.
(17) These findings and clinical observations suggest that inhibition of N. asteroides by neutrophils may be important in vivo.
(18) Evidence for the possible developmental pathway of the Schaumann body is provided by morphological changes within myelinoid figures intimately related to the asteroid body.
(19) Two and one half years later N. asteroides pneumonia recurred and resulted in death from respiratory failure.
(20) The official citation for the asteroid reads: "Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was a Scottish writer best known for the Culture series of science fiction novels; he also wrote fiction as Iain Banks.