What's the difference between contrarotation and piston?

Contrarotation


Definition:

  • (n.) Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each bulb consists of overlapping, contrarotating myofibres which display obvious striations; the striations appear in alternate fibres to be in transverse and oblique planes.
  • (2) Constancy and change of delusion is due to both sexes, differing in degree, in part contrarotating.

Piston


Definition:

  • (n.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The buccal glands of adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis consist of a pair of small, bean-shaped, hollow sacs, embedded within the basilaris muscle in the region below the eyes and to either side of the piston cartilage.
  • (2) Both groups were ventilated with a constant-volume piston ventilator.
  • (3) To give variations in the peak flow-rate (from pulsatile to intermediate to non-pulsatile), three types of blood pump (piston-bellows, screw, and centrifugal) were applied to dogs.
  • (4) The players were each to be given a present: Dietmar Hamann (he's German, tee hee hee) got a copy of Mein Kampf, while the Italian Alessandro Pistone, perceived as lacking fight, was given a sheep's heart.
  • (5) After 4 minutes of ventricular fibrillation CPR was performed with the use of a pneumatic piston compressor.
  • (6) Sinusoidal volume changes were delivered through a tracheostomy by a piston pump driven by a linear motor.
  • (7) In groups I-III it is possible to discover whether the piston is too long or too short, whether it is dislocated or has slipped.
  • (8) Pressures and flows from this pump were compared to a Harvard Apparatus pulsatile piston pump.
  • (9) The vein graft technique (nine cases) is very much inferior to the piston technique.
  • (10) Results of partial stapedectomy with the formation of small fenestra and the use of teflon piston prostheses in the period of 1980-1984 are shown.
  • (11) They suck, by means of a stylet acting as a piston, all components of the muscle cell which develops into a nurse cell, into their oral cavity.
  • (12) A pneumatically driven piston was used to cause a mechanical stress (10-150 N) on the stabilized tooth crown for 30 s, with instantaneous onset and release.
  • (13) They recorded an auditory gain in more than half the patients (early: PORP 97%, TORP 73%, piston 52%; plasty transplants of ossicles obtained from subjects who died accidentallyÄ• For preserfic Council of the Ministry of Health, Czech Socialist Republic, recommended, based on the clinical tests, the manufacture of silastic prostheses of the middle ear.
  • (14) It is designed as a positive displacement pump, with blood allowed to collect in a valved cavity from which it is ejected by the reciprocating action of a piston.
  • (15) The ejection force is wholly produced by the compressed coil spring and is transmitted to the piston in the blood chamber by a rod.
  • (16) The 4 modes of failure characterizing stem-type component progressive loosening mechanisms consisted of stem pistoning within the acrylic (3.3%), cement-embedded stem pistoning with the femur (5.1%), medial midstem pivot (2.5%), calcar pivot (0.7%) and bending (fatigue) cantilever (3.3%).
  • (17) In model 1, diaphragmatic descent was treated as if it were a "piston in a cylinder."
  • (18) Insertion, which takes only a few minutes, is accomplished with a plastic tube and piston device.
  • (19) The expanding ameroid pushes a piston with a concave extension (makrolon) a maximum of 2 mm against the artery, which is fixed to the metal housing by a teflon band (width: 4 mm, thickness: 0.5 mm).
  • (20) The novel design of this pump incorporates two rack-mounted pistons, driven into opposing cylinders by a micro-stepping motor.

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