(n.) That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hydraulic parfait model illustrates a concept of symptom production by additive accumulation of pathology from various etiologies.
(2) Insertion into the ETT of a pressure catheter (external diameter: d) to stimulate in vivo measurements did not modify these results, provided the hydraulic diameter, D* = D - d, was substituted for D in the Blasius formula.
(3) Total hydraulic power expended per unit of forward flow was computed as an index of right ventricular-pulmonary artery coupling.
(4) Fenestrated endothelia have higher hydraulic conductivities and are more permeable to small ions and molecules than are continuous endothelia.
(5) A hydraulic model confirmed that this effect caused the appearance of the TP.
(6) The observation that the apparent activation energy for hydraulic conductivity is less than that for water diffusion across the red cell membrane is characteristic of viscous flow and suggests that the flow of water across the membranes of these red cells under an osmotic pressure gradient is a viscous process.
(7) Decreases in permeability and in reflection coefficient for urea and increase in hydraulic conductivity increased the osmotic gradients along each compartment.
(8) 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.
(9) Potential dermal exposure from tractor-powered sprayers fitted with conventional hydraulic nozzles was lower than from knapsack sprayers, with exposure from a tractor-powered sprayer fitted with controlled-droplet application equipment intermediate in this regard.
(10) Recent data are provided on the technique of arm radiography to quantify changes in arm muscle and fat following strength development with hydraulic resistance exercise equipment.
(11) It is argued that the CFC changes are best explained by changes in the hydraulic conductivity of the exchange vessels, rather than through changes in the perfused surface area, and that the CFC changes are similar to the permeability changes caused by inflammatory mediators and catecholamines observed by others.
(12) Industry estimates suggest there may be enough of this and other so-called "unconventional" forms of gas, which are newly accessible because of advances in a technique known as hydraulic fracturing - "fracking" – to power the globe for two centuries.
(13) The acute hydraulic effects, reflex and hormonal responses, and local autoregulatory responses and their interactions are reviewed.
(14) Transfer fractions obtained using this method were also compared to the fractions determined by a previously described technique, deconvolution analysis, for a hydraulic model in which a third, inaccessible pool was interposed between the two accessible pools.
(15) Nevertheless, the glomerular transcapillary hydraulic pressure difference (deltaP) uniformly increased with antidiuresis, due to consistent reductions in Bowman's space hydraulic pressure rather than to increases in glomerular capillary hydraulic pressure, the former a consequence of the fall in urine flow rate.
(16) The time constant of isovolumic pressure fall (T) and end-systolic pressure (ESP) were calculated during the control state, caval occlusion, aortic constriction obtained by inflation of a hydraulic cuff occluder positioned around the aorta, and during the inflation of an intra-aortic balloon.
(17) Such an approach permits separation of pulsatile phenomena from steady flow phenomena; it is the basis for description of hydraulic load as vascular impedance and for application of engineering principles to the study of fatigue and degeneration of arteries; it readily explains disturbed arterial function in hypertension in terms of increased peripheral resistance and of increased arterial stiffness.
(18) In the presence of horse immunoglobulin G, a wholly rejected protein, the rejection of cytochrome c was increased and hydraulic flux was reduced.
(19) Vascular impedance and pulsatile hydraulic power (Wp) levels of isolated perfused rabbit lungs were compared after similar rises of pulmonary arterial pressure (PAp), induced either by vasoconstriction or by left atrial pressure (LAp) elevation.
(20) (3) The grades of osmotic gradient, of hydraulic conductivity, and of semipermeable property of gland epithelia were described.
Pneumatics
Definition:
(n.) That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
(n.) The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and men.
Example Sentences:
(1) and respirated with a pneumatic respiration pump and the parameters blood pressure, pH and blood gases (pO2, pCO2) were continuously recorded.
(2) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(4) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(5) To control for the lower baseline BP that was present in rats with A-V fistula, a second series of studies was performed in which renal perfusion pressure was reduced in normal rats to 110 mm Hg with a servocontrolled pneumatic cuff.
(6) Long-term synchronized left ventricular bypass has been performed in calves using pneumatically powered pumps having a smooth lining fabricated of segmented polyurethane.
(7) We report what we believe to be the first patient in whom an esophagram immediately after a routine, uncomplicated pneumatic dilation revealed complete esophageal obstruction.
(8) Pneumatic retinopexy is a recent innovation in the treatment of uncomplicated retinal detachments due to a superior retinal break extending for 30 degrees or less.
(9) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
(10) We quantified the variability in extent of sinus pneumatization (a measure of sinus development) in infants and young children.
(11) Around the time of puberty the pneumatization usually penetrates up to the spheno-occipital synchondrosis.
(12) Eight pneumatic vibrating power hand tools, representing tools commonly used in an automobile assembly plant, were studied.
(13) Intermittent pneumatic compression was used for edema treatment.
(14) Most devices were pneumatically ("breath") controlled.
(15) After 4 minutes of ventricular fibrillation CPR was performed with the use of a pneumatic piston compressor.
(16) Rhinoliquorrhoea is the leading symptome of an osteodural defect of the base of the skull, the pneumatic system of the rhinobasis being affected.
(17) We believe that pneumatic dilatation should be considered in patients with systemic sclerosis and severe dysphagia where reflux oesophagitis is not apparent.
(18) On the ground of a research into the influence produced by the administered doses and the density of the aerosol on the therapeutic activity the expediency of employing aerosol generators based upon pneumatic atomization by using the principle of ejecting an additional volume of air, as units yielding a substantial curative effect, is demonstrated.
(19) Calibrated scleral suction cups pneumatically connected to a sensitive transducer are used to provide well reproducible ocular pulse recordings.
(20) The study does not answer the question of whether orbital contour will be maintained on a long-term basis adjacent to a pneumatized sinus following reconstruction with a bioabsorbable implant.