(n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
(n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
(n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
(n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
(n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
(n.) A spectacle or show.
(n.) Opinion; decision.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(3) Core biopsy with computed tomography (CT) or ultrasound (US) guidance may be such an alternative, particularly when a spring-loaded firing device is used.
(4) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(5) Good fixation was obtained in 4 cases using Steffee's devices.
(6) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(7) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(8) A device allowing pressure to be applied to a local skin site where the skin blood flow is followed using laser Doppler flowmetry is described.
(9) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(10) The Nd-Yag-Laser seems to be a useful device in transsphenoidal surgery due to its potent coagulation effect and comfortable handling.
(11) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(12) The devices worked as well on postphlebitic legs as on normal ones.
(13) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(14) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
(15) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(17) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(18) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(19) A training device is used in conjunction with an exercise program to teach muscle control for retention of a mandibular denture.
(20) We also used an optical device to stabilize images of the real world upon the retina.
Galvanometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument or apparatus for measuring the intensity of an electric current, usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three types of Berger's early investigations are described: (1) String-galvanometer recordings obtained between 1924 and 1926, mainly from trephined patients with cerebral diseases, which usually showed brain waves slowed to 6--8 per second; (2) Direct recordings from the cortex and white matter proving the cortical origin of the EEG in 1930; (3) Typical unpublished EEG recordings of epileptics and of petit-mal attacks obtained in 1930 and 1931.
(2) "Effective streaming currents" were determined by running the output through a low impedence galvanometer while simultaneously measuring the resistance of the circuit V(8) were, therefore, calculated from two measurements and compared.
(3) Films are presented for tracking on a translucent screen after reflection from a galvanometer driven mirror.
(4) Despite the universal use of the electrocardiogram for cardiac evaluation, surprisingly few physicians are aware of the individual, Willem Einthoven, who in 1901 reported and in 1924 received the Nobel Prize for the development of the string galvanometer electrocardiograph.
(5) He constructed the string galvanometer and thus he created an essential technical basis for the development of clinically applicable electrocardiographs.
(6) The results of heat measurements, using a sensitive thermopile-galvanometer system, are compatible with the hypotheses that this effect on relaxation could result from either an interference with calcium reuptake by the sarcoplasmic reticulum or an increased affinity of the troponintropomyosin complex for available calcium.
(7) When Einthoven developed the elegant, reliable and sensitive string galvanometer, he could record the electric forces of the heart from the hands and feet of the subject without even undressing him.
(8) The hook was soldered to the pivot of a galvanometer that was controlled by a waveform generator.
(9) Volta's doctrine prevailed over Galvani's school after Volta's breakthrough with his pile, or battery, until Galvani's ideas were rehabilitated by Nobili, who in 1828 measured the 'frog current' with his galvanometer.
(10) The scanning apparatus of our system, paired galvanometer mirrors, can perform narrow band scanning of an area of interest at a high temporal resolution of less than 70 msec per image.
(11) This report deals with a simplified and improved method for measuring the force-velocity relationship of the cat papillary muscle by means of a coil-type galvanometer and a horizontally oriented lever system.
(12) When Einthoven's great galvanometer became available, only the three standard limb leads were used.
(13) We have developed a new confocal laser scanning microscope equipped with two galvanometer mirrors which swing the laser beam.
(14) Electrocardiography only became clinically relevant in 1901 when Willem Einthoven devised his string galvanometer for this purpose.
(15) The present invention is based on the use of two ballistic galvanometers in connection with an ECG-Bcg set, making it unnecessary to change poles mechanically each time in order to take in surface values above and below the zero line.
(16) Two designs use servo-controlled DC motors configured as velocity servos and a third design uses a galvanometer motor configured as a position servo.
(17) The interest towards intraventricular conduction defects started some 10 yr after the introduction of the string galvanometer by Einthoven.
(18) The galvanometer-mirror assembly is mounted on an arm which can be rotated through 90 degrees.
(19) The indicated values of the ballistic galvanometer can, on the one hand, be read directLy or, on the other hand, be documented mechanically by means of a film camera or by a photographic camera with or without different adjustable time delays or by electronic coupling after applying the measurement(s).
(20) Raster scan of the beam is provided by two orthogonal mirror galvanometers.