(n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer yielded mean aw values and precision estimates that did not differ significantly from those obtained with the electrical hygrometers for (NH4)2SO4slush, KNO3 slush, sweetened condensed milk, pancake syrup, and cheese spread.
(2) The calibration responses for another electrical hygrometer (Hygrodynamics) were nonlinear.
(3) Then the hair hygrometer is no longer capable of reacting sufficiently to the fluctuation of the relative humidity of the bath.
(4) It consists of a special cylindrical casing into which the sensor of a hair hygrometer has been introduced.
(5) However, the mean aw value for a soy sauce was 0.838 for the electrical hygrometers compared with 0.911 for the fiber-dimensional hygrometer.
(6) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer was affected by a volatile component(s) in the soy sauce that caused an erroneously high aw value.
(7) Average absolute percent difference between predicted and assigned aw values for the linear model ranged from 0.3 to 0.7% for a fiber-dimensional hygrometer (Abbeon) and 3 electrical hygrometers (Beckman, Rotronics, and Weather Measure).
(8) For each of the most commonly used humidifiers inspired gas humidity was measured under routine clinical conditions with an electronic hygrometer.
(9) Proximal airway humidity was measured during mechanical ventilation in 14 infants using an electronic hygrometer.
(10) The hair hygrometer has to be protected inside the device casing against a contamination by the bath or the condensing drycleaning solvent.
(11) Using a precision thermocouple hygrometer, requiring just 5 microliters of sample, the tear osmotic pressures of 6 subjects were monitored throughout their adaptation to rigid contact lenses.
(12) On the basis of the experimental results obtained instructions are given for the employment of hair hygrometers in drycleaning and for the design of the device casing: 1.
(13) Provided that the technical requirements are met, hair hygrometers may also be considered as reliable measuring instruments in the practice of drycleaning.
(14) It could be observed that a malfunction of the hair hygrometer mainly occurred when the hairs fixed in the sensor were moistened by the drycleaning bath or by the drycleaning solvent (perchloroethylene), respectively.
(15) This paper presents the procedures and equations to be utilized for measurement of evaporative water loss (mw), by use of the dew-point hygrometer, in small animals exposed to air containing water vapor in an open-flow system.
(16) During the whole night, 2 local sweating rates on the right and the left sides of the upper chest were continuously recorded from 12 cm2 area capsules using a dew-point hygrometer technique, while applying local thermal clamps, a constant 2 degrees C difference in local skin temperatures being imposed between the two symmetrical skin areas.
(17) A ventilated hygrometer system has been used to study the evaporative water loss (EWL) from the excised wound of rats with and without these dressings.
(18) Pooled estimates of reproducibility (Sx) in the 3 studies were 0.008 for the fiber-dimensional hygrometer and 0.010 for the electrical hygrometers; these values were not significantly different from those reported in the study that verified the current official AOAC method.
(19) In the studies published and discussed in the present paper, the causes for the malfunction of the hair hygrometer, in the device mentioned were determined.
(20) The aim of this study was to compare the variation of electrometric data generated by 4 different instruments (Skicon Hygrometer, 2 CM420 and a CM820 corneometer) in normal and experimentally damaged skin displaying surface roughness.
Thermometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a meat thermometer, with the probe inside the thickest part of the cut, can ensure that you get it right every time.
(2) In both clincis phenylmercuric borate was used for desinfection of the thermometers.
(3) In a prospective, blinded trial, 40 healthy adult subjects using six IRED thermometers with two techniques were examined in random sequence.
(4) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
(5) At the same time, another health professional used a digital electronic thermometer to measure the temperature at each site and a special rectal probe to measure core temperature.
(6) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(7) In the situation where accurate measurement of temperature by thermometer is not available, mother's assessment about presence or absence of fever in her child can be relied upon by health-workers and physicians.
(8) Time dependence of the surface temperature at the centre of the target area immediately after exposure and the spatial distribution of the surface temperature around the target area during exposures were measured using a thermocouple thermometer.
(9) Besides according to clinical manifestations, the therapeutic effect was objectivized in dynamics through the oscillography "Gesenius-Keller", double-rheography "Schufrid", skin thermometer--Tastotherm P 60 "Braun" and 6-canal ECG apparatus "Hellige".
(10) This nosocomial outbreak of infection due to a highly vancomycin-resistant strain of Enterococcus is the first epidemic in which an electronic thermometer has been implicated as the vehicle of transmission for an infectious agent.
(11) The Craftemp thermometer is an electrical device for measurement of oral and axillary temperatures.
(12) We studied two infrared thermometers (FirstTemp and Thermoscan) and a thermistor (IVAC) in children with cancer.
(13) The infrared tympanic thermometer tracked the core temperature (as measured by the thermistor tip of the pulmonary artery catheter) closely, with a correlation coefficient of 0.98, and took less than 2 sec to measure.
(14) Nasal mucosal temperature was measured in 71 healthy subjects with an electronic thermometer.
(15) This report describes a 23-year-old white man who injected metallic mercury from a thermometer into his antecubital vein in an attempt at suicide.
(16) For use on unconscious patients or those who are otherwise unwilling or unable to cooperate with traditional techniques, IR ear thermometers offer a more comfortable and less stressful method of temperature taking for both patients and nurses, especially where rectal temperatures are used.
(17) Each cell in the thermometer contains liquid crystals with a slightly different makeup so they reflect the same wavelength of light at just slightly different temperatures.
(18) The CDC issued guidance on the scanners, calling them “less precise” than other temperature-taking measures , such as traditional mercury thermometers, and acknowledging that their effectiveness can be impacted by ambient temperatures.
(19) To determine if a tympanic membrane thermometer is of benefit on a pediatric unit.
(20) A mathematical model has been developed to determine the spatial resolving power of these thermometers.