(n.) A contrivance for forcing feed water into a steam boiler by the direct action of the steam upon the water. The water is driven into the boiler by the impulse of a jet of the steam which becomes condensed as soon as it strikes the stream of cold water it impels; -- also called Giffard's injector, from the inventor.
Example Sentences:
(1) It focuses on the major areas of concern: HIV prevalence among drug injectors; sexual risk behaviour; the potential for heterosexual transmission; condom use; sexual risk and women; pregnancy; male homosexual activity and drug use; the effect of drugs on sexual behaviour and prostitution.
(2) 21 amino acids were determined by a liquid chromatograph, consisting of an automatic controller of the gradient, nonautomatic injector, fluorimetric detector and recording device.
(3) The number of current injectors was estimated to be 9400; the prevalence of HIV infection among 447 injectors recruited to the HIV prevalence study during 1990 was 1.1%.
(4) No differences were found in the typical daily doses prior to entering treatment between chasers and injectors.
(5) Analyses are routinely performed with an automatic injector; overall analysis time is about 1 h per sample.
(6) We examined the effect of two types of automatic injector delivery of two drugs which are components of the standard antidote to anticholinesterase poisoning and which have been previously shown to have a reduced absorption rate when mixed together in a manual injection.
(7) Then the second valve was switched off and the injection line connected to a transducer, allowing measurement of EEP through the injector.
(8) The reaction system consists of two pumps to deliver reagent and carrier stream, sample injector, reaction coil (0.5 mm ID x 15 m, 150 degrees C), cooling coil (0.5 mm ID x 3 m, 30 degrees C), and cooling coil (0.5 mm ID x 20 cm, 0 degrees C).
(9) The Storz bronchoscopes produced consistently higher peak inflation pressures and flow rates at all driving pressures in spite of the relatively large angle of the injector from the axial line.
(10) Samples were injected using an automatic injector via a loop column, and separation was obtained using a reversed-phase column under isocratic conditions.
(11) Therefore, manual injection should be replaced by remotely controled injection by means of an injector.
(12) Initially a modified Carden tube with a ventilating injector was used through a tracheostomy stoma and subsequently an orotracheal tube was substituted.
(13) In an open randomized cross-over study 50 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes were allocated to 3 months of treatment with NPH insulin either by means of a pen injector (Insuject-X) or by conventional syringes.
(14) With an automatic injector and a programmable detector, the system allows unattended operation.
(15) All parameters show that an increased, more reliable, and homogeneous enhancement can be obtained by application of the power injector compared to manual bolus injection technique using the same amount of contrast media (100 cc).
(16) The impact of an outpatient, risk-management system, including a transtelephonic electrocardiographic monitor and lidocaine injector, on the quality of life in post-myocardial infarction patients was examined.
(17) A simple device is described involving suction (by means of an injector run on oxygen) and an oxygen delivery system including an outlet into which the respirator can be plugged direct.
(18) The temperature of the gas chromatographic injector should be at least 325 degrees C. A capillary column of a minimum length of 10 m coated with a methyl silicone is adequate.
(19) The Venturi is a flow-accelerating injector, activated by fresh gas inflow from the anaesthetic machine.
(20) The catheter tip is formed in three dimensions to allow simple selective catheterization and to provide improved stability during injection of contrast media by power injector or by hand.
Inspirator
Definition:
(n.) A kind of injector for forcing water by steam. See Injector, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
(2) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
(3) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
(4) The duration of the individual crackles became shorter and the timing of the crackles shifted toward the end of inspiration.
(5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(6) Transcutaneous oxygen measurements (TcpO2) have been shown to be an index of tissue perfusion and it has been suggested that the main haemodynamic variable influencing tissue perfusion is cardiac output, assuming that inspired oxygen remains constant.
(7) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(8) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
(9) Under cyclic uptake conditions alveolar gases follow an oscillating time course, because gas concentrations tend to increase during inspiration and to decrease during expiration.
(10) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
(11) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
(12) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
(13) "It's inspiring for young sportspeople everywhere to have something like this happening in our backyard.
(14) Increased ventilatory excursions with constant inspired CO2 levels did not cause any elevation of IOT, but a minimal compensatory drop in IOT below resting values occurred when increased ventilatory excursions were discontinued.
(15) As an index of inhomogeneous distribution of inspired air, the mean dilution number (the ratio of the first to zero moments) was calculated from each multibreath nitrogen washout during spontaneous breathing.
(16) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
(17) The effects of the level of oxygenation on the respiratory response to heat exposure have been studied in conscious cats during normoxia, severe or mild hypocapnic hypoxia [inspired O2 fraction (FIO2) = 0.11 or 0.13], or hyperoxia.
(18) We therefore measured HCVR, HVR, and ventilation for three breaths preceding and eight breaths following three totally obstructed inspirations in eight normal subjects during NREM sleep.
(19) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(20) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.