What's the difference between mechanical and mechanograph?
Mechanical
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products.
(a.) Done as if by a machine; uninfluenced by will or emotion; proceeding automatically, or by habit, without special intention or reflection; as, mechanical singing; mechanical verses; mechanical service.
(a.) Made and operated by interaction of forces without a directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.
(a.) Obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate; empirical. See the 2d Note under Geometric.
(n.) A mechanic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(2) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
(3) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(4) We have investigated the effect of methimazole (MMI) on cell-mediated immunity and ascertained the mechanisms of immunosuppression produced by the drug.
(5) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(6) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
(7) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(8) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
(9) However, the mechanism of the inhibitory action is still somewhat uncertain.
(10) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(11) We studied the hemodynamic changes caused by bronchoscopy under LA in mechanically ventilated patients and the effect of LA on the endoscopic decline in arterial pO2.
(12) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(13) Dilutional studies comparing the mechanism of inhibition of monoamine oxidase produced by Gerovital H3 and by ipronizid demonstrated that Gerovital H3 was a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase.
(14) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(15) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(16) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
(17) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
(18) This suggests that a physiological mechanism exists which can increase the barrier pressure to gastrooesophageal reflux during periods of active secretion of the stomach, as occurs in digestion.
(19) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(20) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
Mechanograph
Definition:
(n.) One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 3627 cases the mechanographical record was incomplete leaving 40 376 patients in the study.
(2) Hypertensive heart disease has been studied by means of the maximal exercise test, mechanographic techniques and echocardiography.
(3) The new method seems to have considerable advantages in comparison with electromyographical (EMG) or other kinds of mechanographical measurements of the muscle tone.
(4) Mechanographic and evoked electromyographic recordings of the thenar muscles were obtained simultaneously.
(5) Dermorphin action was studied on cross-section strip of frog stomach muscle by a mechanographic recorder.
(6) 20 subjects with parietal ventricular block, detected by Frank vectoracardiogram, were submitted to phono-mechanographic examination.
(7) On the basis of the data here presented and that of the literature, a polygraphic profile of atrial flutter has been constructed as follows: notable variability of the intensity and of the richness of the vibratory components of the first and second heart sound; regularly alternating intervals between successive atrial sounds, each one of which consists of two groups of vibrations; deformations of all mechanographic tracings corresponding with "F" waves of the ECG.
(8) Mechanographic studies in dynamics provide the possibility for appraising the efficacy of the treatment and, evidently, for prognosticating its outcome.
(9) From the aetiological standpoint, it might be thought that during the posptpartum period, various abnormal conditions prevail or would be discovered (13 in our series); but it is also true that some cases of true PPC, with marked stasis and a tendency to thrombosis, as well as severe involvement of the myocardium (as witnessed especially by the mechanographic findings), to progress after 3 months either to resolution, death, or complications; the histological findings in the two fatal cases were of myocarditis.
(10) Both mechanographic and electromyographic recordings from the adductor pollicis were obtained simultaneously.
(11) For the range of mechanographic TOF ratios between 0.41 and 0.70, visual assessment of TOF fade failed to identify fade in 33%, 36%, 44%, and 58% of cases at 20, 30, 50, and 60 mA, respectively.
(12) The mechanographical correlate of the homonymous reflex activity in distal muscles was a short release (Fig.
(13) Measurements were performed noninvasively using a mechanographic method and B-mode pulsed Doppler ultrasonography.
(14) The antihypertensive efficacy was evaluated and any modifications to peripheral haemodynamic parameters were observed in the brachial artery by a mechanographic method and B-mode scanner with a 10-MHz probe.
(15) In conclusion, the present study revealed that there is a high degree of linear correlation between DBS and TOF, and that this mechanographic relationship is maintained over a wide range of stimulating currents during varying degrees of clinical neuromuscular blockade.
(16) Structural and functional studies have been done on the nerve-muscle transmission in m. biventer cervicis of mouse using electrophysiological, mechanographic and microscopic techniques.
(17) A new non-invasive method based on mechanographic cycles has been developed for the study of heart function.
(18) The purpose of this study is to examine the role of peptidergic nerves (VIP, Substance P, Neurotensin) in Hirschsprung's disease (aganglionosis) and hypoganglionosis in relation to the normoganlionic state of the colon using a mechanographic technique in vitro.
(19) It is concluded that the mechanographical record obtained in insurance medicine is a valuable tool for statistical analysis of a disease and that C.C.P.
(20) A behavioural, a mechanographic and an electromyographic (EMG) study were carried out during the execution of a rapid elbow movement, in two normal monkeys and, after the MPTP administration, before and after a L-DOPA therapy.