(n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
Example Sentences:
(1) For Araldite photoelastic models of an alumina head on a Vitallium spigot, as-cast taper surfaces lubricated with silicone grease gave consistent friction of typically mu = 0.14.
(2) Nevertheless the character of these spigots undoubtedly reflects phylogenetic relationships between the spider taxa.
(3) Static axial push-on and lift-off, and push-on and twist-off experiments were designed and performed to measure the effective, room-temperature coefficient of friction mu for different design femoral prosthesis cone taper joints comprising a universal head on a stem spigot.
(4) We compared the efficacy of ozonation, UV light, hyperchlorination, and heat eradication using a model plumbing system constructed of copper piping, brass spigots, Plexiglas reservoir, electric hot water tank, and a pump.
(5) Short-duration, cyclically loaded, axial, fretting corrosion tests were designed and performed to compare the fretting behaviour of different metal Howmedica universal heads connected to coated and uncoated metal cone taper spigots.
(6) The global supply glut of about 1.5m barrels per day is the driving factor behind the lower oil prices, with much of that overproduction because of Opec’s opening the spigots.
(7) Three practices were evaluated: the securing of catheters, presence of kinking and the use of urinary bags with a drainage spigot.
(8) The comparative observations enable me to create a hypothesis dealing with the existence of several evolutionary lines of spiders, each of which is represented with their own form of spigots.
(9) Alumina and metal heads were tested on metal spigots using either distilled water, Ringer's solution, blood or no lubricant.
(10) If the financial spigots of the City of London were turned off, it would be Russia that has the most to lose: since 2002 Russian companies have raised $406bn on London's capital markets.
(11) The values measured were typically mu = 0.2 for an alumina head on a Co-Cr-Mo or Ti-6Al-4V spigot, mu = 0.15 for a Co-Cr-Mo head on a Co-Cr-Mo or Ti-6Al-4V spigot and mu = 0.13 for a stainless steel head on a stainless steel spigot.
(12) "Once the spigot is turned on, once the preponderance of water comes out of a pipeline instead of the Colorado river, do you think for one minute it will ever be turned off?"
(13) The axial displacement of model heads on their spigots were compared with predicted values and previously measured values for prosthesis heads.
(14) The present paper reviews the results from the study of spigots, i.e.
(15) I think most pragmatists realise that we can’t close the spigot on the oil wells and close the coal mines immediately without some other energy source to shift to.” Climate change petition sign up
(16) Colonization of the catheter and its sequelae, including cystitis, result from a creeping adherent biofilm of bacteria ascending the luminal and external surfaces of the catheter and drainage system from a contaminated drainage spigot or from the urethral meatus.
(17) The Fed chairman refused to be drawn on precisely what signs would have to emerge before he turns off the spigot.
(18) A frosted glass cubicle contained a squat toilet, basin and a hot water spigot for showers.
(19) There’s Oprah and there’s the rest of us, that’s the real message – and we should be grateful merely to receive the sacramental balm that now gushes from her benevolent spigot.
(20) The robot hands are used to deliver solvents from pressurized spigot lines and to pipet amino acid solutions from reservoirs to an array of reaction vessels.
Stopcock
Definition:
(n.) A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.
(n.) The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a conventional mixture of two units of packed red cells, two units of fresh frozen plasma and 500 ml crystalloid, a single line and a driving pressure of 300 mmHg, the highest flow in our study was 970 ml.min-1 (2.8 mm catheter, no stopcock).
(2) A three-way stopcock with double syringe allows concomitant administration of atropine to counteract the cholinergic side effects of edrophonium.
(3) Stopcocks with larger inner diameters may improve drainage over that achievable with the stopcocks that are currently available.
(4) The use of a three-way stopcock and connecting tube between catheter and syringe is suggested.
(5) Finally it is emphasized that careful handling of the catheters and avoidance of stopcocks and air bubbles are essential for obtaining accurate and reproducible values.
(6) With the prototype stopcock, drainage of water alone was reduced by 0-9% for the catheters of different sizes.
(7) The standard stopcock decreased drainage efficiency for these catheters by 13-42%.
(8) If the stopcock in the boy's toilet begins to stick, ring Michael Gove.
(9) Two outbreaks of pseudobacteraemia occurred related to the arterial line stopcock and to heparin used for biochemistry tests.
(10) Hematocrit and blood gases were measured after withdrawing 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 ml of flush-blood solutions before sampling from a 20-ga radial artery catheter and 7-ft pressure tubing and stopcock.
(11) Patients were randomized to receive fentanyl initially by an epidural (group A, n = 8) or IV (group B, n = 8) catheter for 6 h, after which they were crossed-over to the alternate route by means of a hidden three-way stopcock.
(12) We found that use of the novel sampling system resulted in significantly fewer episodes of internal bacterial contamination of the arterial monitoring line (7%) than did the use of a stopcock system (61%).
(13) A closed system device with teflon needle, sideholes, and attached stopcock was designed and evaluated for diagnosis and evacuation of neonatal pneumothoraces.
(14) The results showed that both sample volume and discarded volume required smaller amount with a T-connecter than with a three-way stopcock to obtain more accurate measurements.
(15) The safety and efficacy of high-pressure injection through a stopcock was tested using a disposable flow switch model.
(16) A double stopcock technique is described for sampling blood from umbilical catheters.
(17) Superior thyroid artery cannulation during carotid endarterectomy and coupling the cannula to a three-way stopcock with an anaeroid manometer allows the surgical team in the operating field to monitor mean pressures and to draw blood samples for gas analysis from the common, the internal, or the external carotid artery.
(18) Fluid or air may be removed from the chest intermittently with a three-way stopcock attached to the thoracostomy tube and a 60-ml syringe.
(19) A sample containing the dwell volume of the catheter and the stopcock (1 ml) was withdrawn and discarded, followed by fifteen 1 ml samples being taken for analysis.
(20) The electromyograms of the rectus abdominis (EMGra) and of the diaphragm (EMGdi) have been recorded on human subjects immersed at two bath temperatures (TW), 25 and 40 degrees C. The recordings were obtained during a calibrated isometric contraction sustained for 20 s against a closed stopcock at functional residual capacity (FRC) level for EMGra (expiratory effort) and at pulmonary volume greater than 90% vital capacity for EMGdi and EMGra (inspiratory effort).