(a.) Of, pertaining to, or taught by, Hermes Trismegistus; as, hermetic philosophy. Hence: Alchemical; chemic.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the system which explains the causes of diseases and the operations of medicine on the principles of the hermetic philosophy, and which made much use, as a remedy, of an alkali and an acid; as, hermetic medicine.
(a.) Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general, after recording a baseline tympanogram, mechanically created positive and negative air pressures are created in a hermetically sealed ear canal causing increased pressure on the middle ear air cushion.
(2) The main characteristics required of a good endodontic fillingsmaterial are its perfectly hermetic sealing of the root canal, the eventual secondary canals, and the dentine canals, against bacteria.
(3) The respiration rate of spore suspensions of Bacillus anthracoides 96 was assayed by mass spectrometry employing a hermetically sealed reaction vessel constructed for this purpose.
(4) This technique uses a device consisting of a chamber with an apperture hermetically adaptable to the orbital borders.
(5) It was established that the plasma scalpel can be used effectively in hermetic closure of defects in the pulmonary tissue and cleansing of the pleural cavity and operative wound; for arresting diffuse bleeding from the walls of the pleural cavity, the plasma scalpel may be used only in combination with other methods of hemostasis.
(6) The hospital’s chief executive, Dr Iris Minde, said at the time there was no risk of infection for other people because he was kept in a secure isolation ward specially equipped with negative pressure, hermetically sealed rooms.
(7) The goal of the study was to determine histological criteria of the peritonitis course in order to establish the earliest time for hermetic closure of the abdominal cavity.
(8) The hermetically sealed defibrillator is encased in titanium, weighs 250 g and has a volume of 145 ml.
(9) - A technology for the hermetic encapsulation of a pacemaker is described.
(10) The various symptoms in Psychosis can be brought to a selective deficit of the experience's pre classifying such as: -lack of "reversibility" troubling the course of thoughts, causing hermetism etc... -lack of "continuity" making easier experience materiality causing hallucinations.
(11) This method was found to allow determination of the transport function of different variants of lympho-venous and lymphonodular-venous anastomoses, their patency and hermetic capacity and detection of the functionally more advantageous variant of the operation for the introduction into practice.
(12) Unanesthetized rats put in the hermetic chamber breathed with a gas mixture containing 10.5% of oxygen in nitrogen during 30 and 60 min (moderate hypoxia), and 3.5% of oxygen in nitrogen for 30 min (severe hypoxia).
(13) Series III now totals 20 doubly hermetically sealed units, tested for up to three years (total more than 300 months or 26 years), with no pacemaker failures.
(14) This finding seems to be optimistic in an attempt to perform the hermetic sealing of the apical foramen.
(15) Into the ipsilateral canine, a cannula hermetically sealed and filled with heparinized saline solution was inserted.
(16) Possible sensibilization of these factors necessitated hygienic and sanitary measures (ventilation, hermetization of the equipment, aspiration, dust-cleaning, bactericidal light devices provision) which lowered the bacterial contamination level by 40-60%.
(17) The present system might be substantially improved by (1) a modified receiver design with a hermetic seal to prevent fluid penetration, (2) stronger, better insulated electrode wires, and (3) modifications of surgical technique and electrode type to prevent phrenic nerve damage.
(18) Investigations of the French physician Perier on patients after a trepanation of their skulls have shown that talking can be understood in the case of hermetically closed ears by means of the trepanation scar.
(19) Therefore, dentin which is exposed during dental treatment should always be sealed hermetically.
(20) The internal sphincter, 4 to 6 mm thick, cannot close the anal canal hermetically, not even during maximal contraction.
Sealed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Seal
Example Sentences:
(1) To provide a seal with low pressure-high volume cuffed tubes, cuff sizes of 20.5 mm and 27.5 mm are recommended for female and male patients, respectively.
(2) Cermet cement sealings showed defects more frequently.
(3) The channels usually ceased conducting within a few minutes after seal formation with the patch pipette and could not be re-activated with depolarizing voltage steps.
(4) For all the understandable insistence that parliament and London would continue as normal after Wednesday’s terrorist attack, almost 24 hours later a large section of streets around the area remained sealed off by police.
(5) Tone pulses and noise stimuli were mixed acoustically and presented using calibrated, sealed stimulating systems.
(6) In general, after recording a baseline tympanogram, mechanically created positive and negative air pressures are created in a hermetically sealed ear canal causing increased pressure on the middle ear air cushion.
(7) Ecological evidence is considered to suggest that the rapid maturation of C. semerme in rats may also occur when the parasite becomes established in seals.
(8) Increased conversion of 25-OHD to 24,25-(OH)2D and a high capacity for vitamin D storage in their large blubber mass appeared to be factors in the resistance of seals to vitamin D toxicity.
(9) The mechanism of sealed-off perforation of the duct is discussed.
(10) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(11) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
(12) The results demonstrated that, when the coronal half of the root canal filling material was removed immediately after placement with pluggers, there was a loss of the apical seal and leakage in thirteen of twenty teeth.
(13) Ultrastructural study of the Leydig cells of nonbreeding crabeater, leopard and Ross seals showed that three types of cells could be distinguished.
(14) National bans on commercial trading in seal products are already in place in 30 countries including the US, the Netherlands and Italy.
(15) Under these conditions, with careful attention to sealing at ankles and waist, it was possible to estimate penetration as low as 0.3%.
(16) We used transvitreally delivered cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive to seal retinal breaks in 25 selected patients undergoing vitreous surgery for complicated retinal detachment.
(17) To date, numerous products have been evaluated, and many hundreds have received the council's seal of acceptance.
(18) She explained that, as a baby, she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM): her clitoris cut off and her vagina sealed, with only a small hole remaining for urine and menstruation.
(19) After accidental dissection of the thoracic duct in infants, leakage of chyle could be sealed successfully in 6 cases.
(20) These microcapsules can be dried and retain activity when sealed in a jar at 4 degrees C.