(n.) That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several circulating agonists and hydromechanical factors, such as the viscous drag-induced shear forces of the blood stream, stimulate the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) or nitric oxide (NO) from endothelial cells.
(2) These relationships yield a relatively low hydromechanical efficiency which is reflected in swimming speeds much smaller than a representative eukaryote.
(3) Thus, aortic flow velocity profiles in the low-profile mechanical valve were affected by pressure gradient caused by the valve size, whereas the hydromechanical disadvantage of the high profile mechanical valve affected the left ventricular pump function and Doppler-derived flow velocity profiles.
(4) In a cardiovascular hydromechanical model, a correlation of 0.99 and p value of less than 0.001 were found between estimated and measured flow in the model (n = 8).
(5) A hydromechanical simulator of the human left heart and systemic circulation system has been built for evaluating the dynamic actions of mitral valve prostheses.
(6) It proceeds under the influence of hydromechanical forces of aparting and nonequilibrated gravity of the cornea as a result of weakening of the eye movement muscle under fixation.
(7) A cochlear postmortem preparation has been developed which allows for hydromechanical studies of the transilluminated organ of Corti.
(8) Stapes velocity was computed using a nonlinear, one-dimensional model of cochlear hydromechanics.
(9) Correlations between model and biophysical data suggest that the model represents a nonlinear mixing by outer hair cells of hydromechanical and electromechanical signals, and thus provides a quantitative tool for biophysical study of cochlear mechanisms.
(10) The hydromechanics of spirilla locomotion is analyzed by considering the balance of both rectilinear and angular momenta of the surrounding viscous fluid which is otherwise at rest.
(11) Considerable sharpening of basilar membrane frequency selectivity and simultaneous decreasing of phase lag can be obtained in a linear ('passive') hydromechanical three-dimensional cochlear model, if the transverse geometry of the cochlea is taken into account.
(12) Evidence for nonlinearities of hydromechanical origin was first found in cochlear models (Békésy, 1928; Tonndorf, 1958).
(13) In a hydromechanical model we assessed the influence of total peripheral resistance and arterial compliance on the pressure half-time as measured by continuous wave Doppler echocardiography.
(14) The patency of the cochlear aqueduct is a key factor in intra-cochlear hydromechanics.
(15) There is presented a hydromechanical model of orthophoria of latent and obvious squint.
(16) The complex form of the nystagmus is regarded as a result of hydromechanical interaction between semicircular canals.
(17) Based on the clinical picture and the hydromechanical balance between the two separate CSF compartments one could distinguish two different patterns: (1) unbalanced high pressure hydrocephalus which improved after third ventriculostomy, and (2) balanced high pressure hydrocephalus which had to have a ventriculo-atrial shunt.
(18) This decrease is transmitted to the perilymph via the cochlear aqueduct producing a transitory perilymphatic hypotonia, which in turn hydromechanically results in a relative endolymphatic hypertension mimicking an endolymphatic hydrops thus representing a human hydrops model.
(19) From these parallels and the additional data measurable only in the model, it can be concluded that: the cochlea acts in a similar way as established in the model; the three kinds of emissions stem from the same source; the phase response of the cochlea's hydromechanics is responsible for the frequency distance between neighboring emissions as well as for the additional tips in suppression tuning curves; the long delay of the delayed evoked emissions is due to the many decaying contributions from the places along the basilar membrane which cancel each other in the early part but sum up to the delayed emission in the later part; and the double-peaked shape of the suppression-period patterns produced by high-level, low-frequency tones reflects the symmetrically shaped saturating nonlinearity of the feedback loops in the model which correspond to the function of the outer hair cells.
(20) In the Author's opinion, this differences of interpretation has no reason to exist since the hydromechanical type phenomena observed in labour with delayed rupture of the membranes can also be found in physiological labour during which they perform functions of primary importance.
Water
Definition:
(n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
(n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
(n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
(n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
(n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
(n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
(v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
(v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
(v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
(v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
(n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
(v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
(v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(5) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(6) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(7) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(8) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(11) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(13) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(15) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
(16) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(17) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(18) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
(19) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(20) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).