(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.
Fluid
Definition:
(a.) Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
(n.) A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(3) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(4) Irrespective of the type of arthropathy, synovial fluid dialysable hydroxyproline levels correlate with urinary hydroxyproline excretion.
(5) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(6) An inflammatory process than occurs in the airways that is characterized by an influx of eosinophils and neutrophils into the airway epithelium and bronchial fluids.
(7) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(8) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(9) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(10) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(11) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(12) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(13) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
(14) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
(15) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
(16) No respiratory-distress syndrome of the newborn occurred when total amniotic-fluid cortisol was greater than 60 ng per milliliter (16 patients).
(17) The sodium level of the ascitic fluid determined in 5 cases was higher than that of serum.
(18) In the study group 43 (64%) children had a confirmed bacterial AOM and 24 (36%) showed no bacterial growth from middle ear fluid.
(19) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(20) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.