What's the difference between pulsation and vibration?

Pulsation


Definition:

  • (n.) A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.
  • (n.) A single beat or throb of a series.
  • (n.) A stroke or impulse by which some medium is affected, as in the propagation of sounds.
  • (n.) Any touching of another's body willfully or in anger. This constitutes battery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Microotoscopy showed a blue pulsating mass behind the tympanic membrane.
  • (2) The surface activity of two surfactant preparations, Lipid Extract Surfactant (LES) and Survanta, was examined during adsorption and dynamic compression using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
  • (3) The absence or reduction of CSF pulsation may prove to be a valuable indicator of the success of a shunting procedure.
  • (4) The use of in-phase TEs was preferable to maintain tissue contrast, and presaturation pulses were employed to eliminate vascular pulsation artifacts.
  • (5) During the gradual change in cuff pressure, the amplitude of consecutive arterial volume pulsations associated with pulse pressure shows change characteristically due to the nonlinearity of arterial pressure-volume(P-V) relation.
  • (6) Free serotonin may become adsorbed to the arterial wall, thus increasing sensitivity to pain, augmenting afferent input and adding a pulsating quality to migrainous pain.
  • (7) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
  • (8) Prominent carotid arterial pulsations were detected which distinguished the condition clinically from aortic atresia.
  • (9) CO diminished in fast expiration, and a phase shift between the heart pulsation and the CO was seen; both agree with experimental findings.
  • (10) Toward these ends, various devices and techniques have been developed, including several different types of vascular shunts in combination with or without extracorporeal oxygenation of blood, implantable auxiliary ventricle and augmentation of diastolic pressure by direct counter pulsation of blood through femoral cannulae or intra-aortic balloon.The sequenced counter pulsator is an external cardiac assist device being developed for the therapy of low output syndromes.
  • (11) At each time of harvesting, the implants were patent and showed arterial pulsations.
  • (12) The venous part regulates the venous inflow volume by the feedback type mechanism; the arterial part ensures complete EC in the pulsating mode during cardiosurgical intervention and auxiliary EC in the course of heart activity recovery after cardioplegia, promoting an increase of the coronary blood flow and synchronized blood supply.
  • (13) In a series of patients with chronic corneal diseases treated with soft contact lenses, good pressure and intraocular pulsations were recorded both with and without the soft lenses.
  • (14) If the anemia is severe, palpitations, otic pulsations, and cardiac decompensation are common.
  • (15) Most are used in the asynchronous full-to-empty mode, but they also may be used in a synchronous counter-pulsation mode.
  • (16) Using the pulsating bubble surfactometer, it could be demonstrated that surfactant mixed with this antibody had a significant higher minimum surface tension when compared with surfactant alone, or surfactant mixed with an unrelated mouse immunoglobulin G (IgG).
  • (17) In normal subjects stimulation of the vesicourethral junction was described as a stimulus-synchronous pulsation combined with a continuous burning feeling and sometimes with a desire to void.
  • (18) The ability of antisera and monoclonal antibodies to inhibit the functional activity of surfactant was assayed using a pulsating bubble surfactometer.
  • (19) A mathematical model was derived expressing the amplitude of container pulsation (delta Po) as a function of mean intraluminal pressure (MPi), mean container pressure (MPo) and arterial pulse amplitude (delta Pi): delta Po = (-2(MPi - MPo) + b) (MPo + 1) delta Pi.
  • (20) Since it was easier to build equipment that recorded pulsations in amplitude, most work was confined to the recording of amplitude pulsations.

Vibration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.
  • (n.) A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle may be in a straight line, in a circular arc, or in any curve whatever.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
  • (2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (3) The intensity changes seen for alpha-fucose were found to follow a reversible first-order rate-equation and the rate constants obtained from different vibrational bands were found to be consistent among themselves and in reasonable agreement with those obtained by other techniques.
  • (4) Amplitude of the musical vibrations decreased by inhalation of amyl nitrite, but increased by infusion of methoxamine.
  • (5) The response of isolated muscle tissue of white rats to low-frequency vibration has been studied.
  • (6) The "random coil" conformational problem is examined by comparison of vibrational CD (VCD) spectra of various polypeptide model systems with that of proline oligomers [(Pro)n] and poly(L-proline).
  • (7) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
  • (8) Additionally, by ultrasonic vibration of tissues that had been subjected to prolonged osmium fixation, the epithelium was removed and such microdissected membranes similarly were examined.
  • (9) The ability of a mathematical model to evaluate the effects of two different pain modulating procedures (partial nerve block and vibration) on acute experimental pulpal pain was studied.
  • (10) The only likely cause for the pathological vascular findings in our patient was an exposure to vibration due to excessive off-street motorcycle driving.
  • (11) Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy with 0.5-ps resolution is used to track the evolution of the CO stretching vibration after visible photoexcitation of carboxyhemoglobin in water at room temperature.
  • (12) Biodynamic stressors such as acceleration, vibration, heat, and cold can affect pilot performance.
  • (13) There have been shown many changes, which took place in the various anatomic-physiological formations of the brain, and evaluated their significance in organism's responses to the effects of ionizing and nonionizing radiation, hyperoxia, hypoxia, accelerations, vibrations and combined effects of some of those factors.
  • (14) Tetrapolar rheovasography was used to medically examine 54 riveters, of equal age and duration of work, who were exposed to the complex action of low-intensity vibration and noise.
  • (15) A vibration-rotation-tunneling band of the perdeuterated cluster has been measured near 89.6 wave numbers by tunable far infrared laser absorption spectroscopy.
  • (16) Vibratory sensitivity was strongly related to height when measurements were made with either the vibration sensitivity tester (P = .02) or the biothesiometer (P less than .01); however, there was no relation between thermal sensitivity (as measured with the thermal sensitivity tester) and height.
  • (17) Our experiments with monkeys gave typical resonance curves for the transmission of vibration of the bulbi with maxima between 25 and 31.5 Hz.
  • (18) Altering the frequency of vibration did not alter the distribution of tremor frequencies.
  • (19) Superficial cutaneous stimulation of the dorsal side of the forearm during tendon vibration noticeably decreased the P1 peaks in both types of motor units.
  • (20) A survey is given of the literature on the sensitivity of the vestibular system to audio-frequency sound and vibration in animals.