(n.) That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
(n.) The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and men.
Example Sentences:
(1) and respirated with a pneumatic respiration pump and the parameters blood pressure, pH and blood gases (pO2, pCO2) were continuously recorded.
(2) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(4) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(5) To control for the lower baseline BP that was present in rats with A-V fistula, a second series of studies was performed in which renal perfusion pressure was reduced in normal rats to 110 mm Hg with a servocontrolled pneumatic cuff.
(6) Long-term synchronized left ventricular bypass has been performed in calves using pneumatically powered pumps having a smooth lining fabricated of segmented polyurethane.
(7) We report what we believe to be the first patient in whom an esophagram immediately after a routine, uncomplicated pneumatic dilation revealed complete esophageal obstruction.
(8) Pneumatic retinopexy is a recent innovation in the treatment of uncomplicated retinal detachments due to a superior retinal break extending for 30 degrees or less.
(9) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
(10) We quantified the variability in extent of sinus pneumatization (a measure of sinus development) in infants and young children.
(11) Around the time of puberty the pneumatization usually penetrates up to the spheno-occipital synchondrosis.
(12) Eight pneumatic vibrating power hand tools, representing tools commonly used in an automobile assembly plant, were studied.
(13) Intermittent pneumatic compression was used for edema treatment.
(14) Most devices were pneumatically ("breath") controlled.
(15) After 4 minutes of ventricular fibrillation CPR was performed with the use of a pneumatic piston compressor.
(16) Rhinoliquorrhoea is the leading symptome of an osteodural defect of the base of the skull, the pneumatic system of the rhinobasis being affected.
(17) We believe that pneumatic dilatation should be considered in patients with systemic sclerosis and severe dysphagia where reflux oesophagitis is not apparent.
(18) On the ground of a research into the influence produced by the administered doses and the density of the aerosol on the therapeutic activity the expediency of employing aerosol generators based upon pneumatic atomization by using the principle of ejecting an additional volume of air, as units yielding a substantial curative effect, is demonstrated.
(19) Calibrated scleral suction cups pneumatically connected to a sensitive transducer are used to provide well reproducible ocular pulse recordings.
(20) The study does not answer the question of whether orbital contour will be maintained on a long-term basis adjacent to a pneumatized sinus following reconstruction with a bioabsorbable implant.
Scientific
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.
(a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.
(a.) Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(3) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
(4) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(5) potential impact on clinical or scientific concepts) and the current productivity (e.g.
(6) Such lack of attention to matters of scientific methodology does not bode well for the advancement of knowledge in this area.
(7) Retrograde extrapolation is applicable in the forensic setting with scientific reliability when reasonable and justifiable assumptions are utilized.
(8) Armed with this knowledge, the practitioner treating a breakdown injury can work to a solution based on scientific understanding rather than anecdotal information.
(9) As a limited amount of in vivo testing is still required, attempts should be made to improve the method by attention to the scientific principles involved, using current knowledge of inflammatory mechanisms.
(10) In this review, many of the recent scientific advances that have been made in the immunological aspects of the pathogenesis of fungal infections are presented.
(11) We have studied this chapter of our history by analyzing primary documents and articles published at the daily press, political press, and scientific journals of Madrid during 1847 to 1848.
(12) He is, by any measure, one of the biggest scientific frauds of all time.
(13) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(14) But they should also serve for the understanding of those inflammatory vascular diseases whose special position is based on the new scientific knowledge of immunopathology.
(15) "Decoding the tsetse fly's DNA is a major scientific breakthrough.
(16) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
(17) This modern view of man and his world discards the traditional mechanistic paradigm which has been the focus of Western scientific thought and medicine.
(18) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(19) It has arisen from semantic errors, and a belief in ischaemia for which there is no scientific evidence.
(20) It imposes a standard of logical reductionism and methodological purity that not only violates the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge, but imposes an invalid standard of verification and scientific confirmation.