(n.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buccal glands of adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis consist of a pair of small, bean-shaped, hollow sacs, embedded within the basilaris muscle in the region below the eyes and to either side of the piston cartilage.
(2) Both groups were ventilated with a constant-volume piston ventilator.
(3) To give variations in the peak flow-rate (from pulsatile to intermediate to non-pulsatile), three types of blood pump (piston-bellows, screw, and centrifugal) were applied to dogs.
(4) The players were each to be given a present: Dietmar Hamann (he's German, tee hee hee) got a copy of Mein Kampf, while the Italian Alessandro Pistone, perceived as lacking fight, was given a sheep's heart.
(5) After 4 minutes of ventricular fibrillation CPR was performed with the use of a pneumatic piston compressor.
(6) Sinusoidal volume changes were delivered through a tracheostomy by a piston pump driven by a linear motor.
(7) In groups I-III it is possible to discover whether the piston is too long or too short, whether it is dislocated or has slipped.
(8) Pressures and flows from this pump were compared to a Harvard Apparatus pulsatile piston pump.
(9) The vein graft technique (nine cases) is very much inferior to the piston technique.
(10) Results of partial stapedectomy with the formation of small fenestra and the use of teflon piston prostheses in the period of 1980-1984 are shown.
(11) They suck, by means of a stylet acting as a piston, all components of the muscle cell which develops into a nurse cell, into their oral cavity.
(12) A pneumatically driven piston was used to cause a mechanical stress (10-150 N) on the stabilized tooth crown for 30 s, with instantaneous onset and release.
(13) They recorded an auditory gain in more than half the patients (early: PORP 97%, TORP 73%, piston 52%; plasty transplants of ossicles obtained from subjects who died accidentallyĕ For preserfic Council of the Ministry of Health, Czech Socialist Republic, recommended, based on the clinical tests, the manufacture of silastic prostheses of the middle ear.
(14) It is designed as a positive displacement pump, with blood allowed to collect in a valved cavity from which it is ejected by the reciprocating action of a piston.
(15) The ejection force is wholly produced by the compressed coil spring and is transmitted to the piston in the blood chamber by a rod.
(16) The 4 modes of failure characterizing stem-type component progressive loosening mechanisms consisted of stem pistoning within the acrylic (3.3%), cement-embedded stem pistoning with the femur (5.1%), medial midstem pivot (2.5%), calcar pivot (0.7%) and bending (fatigue) cantilever (3.3%).
(17) In model 1, diaphragmatic descent was treated as if it were a "piston in a cylinder."
(18) Insertion, which takes only a few minutes, is accomplished with a plastic tube and piston device.
(19) The expanding ameroid pushes a piston with a concave extension (makrolon) a maximum of 2 mm against the artery, which is fixed to the metal housing by a teflon band (width: 4 mm, thickness: 0.5 mm).
(20) The novel design of this pump incorporates two rack-mounted pistons, driven into opposing cylinders by a micro-stepping motor.
Syringe
Definition:
(n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.
(v. t.) To inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.
(v. t.) To wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study sought to determine if and why barriers to the over-the-counter purchase of syringes in the St. Louis metropolitan area might exist, given that no ordinance prohibits such a sale there.
(2) The ability of 814 strains of Micromycetes to grow on ferulic and syringic acids was investigated.
(3) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(4) Syringes that have been redesigned to eliminate the need for recapping offer a major safety advantage.
(5) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
(6) When imitation examination was carried out using pontamine blue dye solution in 7 kinds of syringes for the use of cartridge, dye reflux was observed in all of them.
(7) However, the bulb syringe (BLB) is used more often for this purpose because of greater technical convenience.
(8) Re-use of plastic syringes would produce an annual saving of about ł15 per patient when compared with glass syringes.
(9) The drug was administered from a distance by means of a projectile syringe shot from a special rifle.
(10) Use of the multiple-dose syringe pump system resulted in a savings of $934.81 in material costs compared with the bottle and burette system and $9.70 in material costs compared with the single-dose syringe pump system (based on 40 doses).
(11) Loading is achieved by the production of transient, survivable plasma membrane disruptions as cells are passed back and forth through a standard syringe needle or similar narrow orifice.
(12) The performance of the Ligmaject syringe compared favourably with that of the conventional dental syringe in terms of patient acceptability and user convenience.
(13) In the nursery, the premeasured and prefiltered blood was ready for immediate infusion, and the syringe was attached directly to a mechanical infusion pump.
(14) The pH and PCO2 increased following alkalinization but gradually decreased in all containers except in polypropylene syringes.
(15) Now we need a global treaty on their responsibilities Read more WHO will embark on a global campaign around the benefits of syringes that have re-use prevention features - meaning they self-disable after a single use - as well as the dangers of reusable needles, with the goal of using WHO-approved syringes across the globe by 2020.
(16) Cells were injected 24 to 48 hr later through the skin using a syringe and needle.
(17) The introduction of specialized syringes in the late 1970s and early 1980s has led to an increase in the use of intraligamentary anaesthesia as a means of pain control in dentistry.
(18) The bacterial contamination of the syringe can be prevented by flushing the contaminated needle prior to changing.
(19) There were no differences in the number of voids in the automixed material dispensed using the intra-oral tip or impression syringe.
(20) A 32-year-old insulin-dependent diabetic patient reported recurrent clouding of her short-acting insulin, caused by silicone oil contamination from re-used disposable syringes.