What's the difference between device and kymograph?

Device


Definition:

  • (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.

Kymograph


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Post-operative symptoms are: dyspnoea during exercise, pain in the affected half of the chest and roentgeno-kymographically demonstrable restrictions of movement in the ruptured side of the diaphragm.
  • (2) The mechanograms were recorded by means of the balloon-kymographic method, the electromyograms-by silver macroelectrodes implanted in the muscle wall.
  • (3) The principle underlying the action of basic subassemblies of the appliance for registration of kymographic curves from roentgenocinemafilms is described.
  • (4) Kymographic measurements on guinea-pig ileum demonstrated an average elevation of the ACh content in the instilled ciliary bodies (0.48 microgram) against the controls (0.33 micron).
  • (5) Kymographic measurements of acetylcholine (ACh) in bovine retinal tissue carried out on guinea-pig ileum do not indicate a significant elevated concentration of ACh in the eye instilled with physostingmine salicylate (1% aqueous solution, 10 applications of three drops at intervals of 3 minutes).
  • (6) Tension changes were recorded by a pen recorder on smoked kymograph paper.
  • (7) A kymographic method allowed the measurement of walking parameters.
  • (8) A horizontal line of structural alteration in teeth can be used as a kymographic record of the causative metabolic disturbance and help pinpoint the active period of the disturbance.
  • (9) Twenty four hour activity of rats was recorded kymographically for a fifteen day period before enucleation and for a similar period after enucleation.
  • (10) Spontaneous colon motoricity was registered on the kymograph in the chamber with oxyzenized Krebs fluid, according to the Magnus method.
  • (11) These evoked tongue jerks (ETJ) were recorded directly on a kymograph or on a linear recorder.
  • (12) The heart size during systolic and diastolic contractions, stroke volume and contractile function were measured once a month, using an X-ray unit and a kymograph.
  • (13) Pressure of perfusion was recorded independently in maternal and fetal circulation using mercurial manometer and Ludwig kymograph++.
  • (14) Kymographic study of the diaphragm gave no further information and was less selective compared with the other tests of pulmonary function.
  • (15) Growth of deciduous tissues gives us a natural kymograph to record secular trends and in some instances makes the mark on the moving record.
  • (16) Since the kymographic sweep is initiated by the R wave of the ECG and proceeds continuously throughout the cardiac cycle, the temporal sequence of regional myocardial contraction can be directly assessed and related to corresponding portions of the ECG.
  • (17) A late follow-up study of the pulmonary function one to eight years after the trauma included x-ray films of the trachea and lungs, kymographic studies of the diaphragm, spirometric and radiospirometric testing, and arterial blood gas levels.
  • (18) On the background of Ludwig's scientific work, his attainments in the field of the development of new medical instruments and appliances--especially of the kymograph--are demonstrated.
  • (19) Of the aneurysms demonstrated by laevocardiography in the left ventricle (31), it was possible to show 22 (71%) kymographically.
  • (20) In 11 patients, the results were compared with those from kymographic recordings measuring patient restlessness (motility index).

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