(v. t.) To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.
(v. t.) To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.
(v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
(v. t.) To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
(n.) A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
(n.) Measure; dimensions; estimate.
(n.) Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
(n.) Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
(n.) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
(n.) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
(n.) The distance between the rails of a railway.
(n.) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
(n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
(2) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(3) US guidance facilitated placement of a 22-gauge needle by means of a subxyphoid or transthoracic approach.
(4) The strain gauge data suggested that a relation exists between masticatory force and parotid salivary flow.
(5) Gauging the proper end point of methohexital administration is accomplished through skilled observation of the patient.
(6) The apparatus consists of three basic components; a set of 4 strain gauge platforms on which the quadruped is trained to stand, a restraining device to keep the animal positioned over the strain gauge platforms and two mobile plates which mechanically stimulate the left or the right forelimb to produce the placing movement.
(7) It will pump nothing more than water into the air, but it will allow climate scientists and engineers to gauge the engineering feasibility of the plan.
(8) Four percent of the 20-gauge and 2% of the 21-gauge patients had mild hematomas.
(9) Fluid flow increased approximately 50% for each gauge catheter when the height was raised from 0.91 to 1.75 m. Flow rates increased linearly with increasing catheter radius.
(10) The tension of each specimen, measured with a strain gauge, was recorded at the same time as the arterial wall temperature, measured by a thermistor probe.
(11) The activity patterns in self- and cross-reinnervated flexor digitorum longus (FDL) and soleus (SOL) muscles were examined during natural movements in awake, unrestrained cats in which electromyographic (EMG) electrodes, tendon-force gauges, and muscle-length gauges had been chronically implanted under anesthesia and aseptic conditions.
(12) To gauge whether more stringent civil commitment criteria have led to the criminalization of mentally ill persons, forcing them into jails and prisons instead of treating them, a statewide sample of 1,226 civil commitment candidates in North Carolina was tracked for six months after their commitment hearings.
(13) The study demonstrates that the noninvasive endoscopic gauge technique allows an accurate estimation of variceal pressure in patients with portal hypertension.
(14) Twenty-five patients were followed-up after an average of 20 months with clinical examination, phlebography, venous strain-gauge pletysmography and vein-pump examination.
(15) The drugs were infused into the brachial artery, and forearm blood flow (by strain-gauge plethysmography), systemic blood pressure and heart rate were measured concomitantly.
(16) It certainly makes sense for the government to try to gauge the harm that could result if all that information was disclosed, but that's very different from saying harm has occurred.
(17) The time required to empty a one litre bag of Ringer's Lactate from a 1.0 meter vertical drop was measured while using four different IV catheters (9.5, 10, 14 and 16 gauge), and the flow rates calculated.
(18) A tube system was connected to an 18-gauge needle and to a pressure transducer.
(19) The motor activity was recorded with seven strain-gauge transducers.
(20) This is best accomplished with a continuous stream of normal saline from a 1-I bag which is attached to an intravenous line with a 16-gauge Teflon catheter placement sleeve affixed to the distal end of the line.
Manometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of a water manometer would have caused overestimation of the intravascular volume status of this patient during the nodal rhythm.
(2) The type of manometer, cuff size, and cuff placement are also important factors in obtaining accurate blood pressure readings.
(3) (2) Tympanometrically measured middle ear pressure (MEP) was almost equivalent to the actual MEP recorded by a manometer when the tympanic membrane was normal.
(4) The animals were chronically instrumented with a microtip manometer in the left ventricle, two pairs of piezoelectric crystals for sonomicrometry and a hydraulic occluder around the circumflex branch of the left coronary artery and arterial and venous catheters.
(5) An air chamber attached to a Hg-manometer has in an upper wall a round window 8 mm in diameter, closed by a 0.05 mm-thick rubber membrane.
(6) To stop the arteriolar flow and allow perfusion pressure, as set by a mercury manometer, to be built up in the lumen of the vessel, the glomerulus was sucked into a constriction pipette.
(7) Compared with the manometer, none of the tonometers accurately measured IOP over the range between 0 and 100 mm of Hg.
(8) The bag pressure differed significantly from the infusor pressure as the blood bag emptied, making the usefulness of the infusor manometer questionable.
(9) These variables were recorded by means of a double-lumen catheter introduced in the aorta of four anesthetized closed chest dogs, and connected to critically damped manometer systems.
(10) The external pressure was measured by a small airfilled plastic cushion connected to a mercury manometer.
(11) Additionally, Pao can be easily and accurately measured by a slowly responding mechanical manometer.
(12) In the cases of 10 cardially healthy humans and 5 patients with heart disease, the left ventricular pressure as well as different parameters of contractility - deduced from the pressure curve and its first derivative - were determined by a catheter-tip manometer (Statham SF - 1).
(13) The performances were recorded with an intraventricular balloon equipped with a tip-manometer catheter.
(14) Haemodynamic variables were measured with the Mills combined left ventricular catheter-tip manometer and aortic electromagnetic blood velocity transducer.
(15) A mercury-in-glass manometer (sphygmomanometer) is used to measure the gas pressure proximal to a flow restrictor (consisting of a hypodermic needle hub) and it is this pressure head which, for a given gas, dictates the flow produced.
(16) A procedure is described for generating alkali in a closed manometer vessel, by mixing mercuric oxide and a solution of sodium iodide, for use in a method for measuring the oxygen consumption at physiological bicarbonate concentrations.
(17) This manometer was only visible to the investigator.
(18) Two lots of the commercial myelogram trays yielded nonviable gram-negative bacilli from 50% of the specimen tubes and 33.3% of the manometers tested.
(19) The oscillometric test instrument and a standard mercury manometer were connected with a Y tube.
(20) Data were obtained from nine dogs chronically instrumented with three sets of piezoelectric diameter gauges to assess ventricular volume and high-fidelity manometers to measure pressure.