(n.) An instrument for measuring temperature, founded on the principle that changes of temperature in bodies are accompained by proportional changes in their volumes or dimensions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a meat thermometer, with the probe inside the thickest part of the cut, can ensure that you get it right every time.
(2) In both clincis phenylmercuric borate was used for desinfection of the thermometers.
(3) In a prospective, blinded trial, 40 healthy adult subjects using six IRED thermometers with two techniques were examined in random sequence.
(4) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
(5) At the same time, another health professional used a digital electronic thermometer to measure the temperature at each site and a special rectal probe to measure core temperature.
(6) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
(7) In the situation where accurate measurement of temperature by thermometer is not available, mother's assessment about presence or absence of fever in her child can be relied upon by health-workers and physicians.
(8) Time dependence of the surface temperature at the centre of the target area immediately after exposure and the spatial distribution of the surface temperature around the target area during exposures were measured using a thermocouple thermometer.
(9) Besides according to clinical manifestations, the therapeutic effect was objectivized in dynamics through the oscillography "Gesenius-Keller", double-rheography "Schufrid", skin thermometer--Tastotherm P 60 "Braun" and 6-canal ECG apparatus "Hellige".
(10) This nosocomial outbreak of infection due to a highly vancomycin-resistant strain of Enterococcus is the first epidemic in which an electronic thermometer has been implicated as the vehicle of transmission for an infectious agent.
(11) The Craftemp thermometer is an electrical device for measurement of oral and axillary temperatures.
(12) We studied two infrared thermometers (FirstTemp and Thermoscan) and a thermistor (IVAC) in children with cancer.
(13) The infrared tympanic thermometer tracked the core temperature (as measured by the thermistor tip of the pulmonary artery catheter) closely, with a correlation coefficient of 0.98, and took less than 2 sec to measure.
(14) Nasal mucosal temperature was measured in 71 healthy subjects with an electronic thermometer.
(15) This report describes a 23-year-old white man who injected metallic mercury from a thermometer into his antecubital vein in an attempt at suicide.
(16) For use on unconscious patients or those who are otherwise unwilling or unable to cooperate with traditional techniques, IR ear thermometers offer a more comfortable and less stressful method of temperature taking for both patients and nurses, especially where rectal temperatures are used.
(17) Each cell in the thermometer contains liquid crystals with a slightly different makeup so they reflect the same wavelength of light at just slightly different temperatures.
(18) The CDC issued guidance on the scanners, calling them “less precise” than other temperature-taking measures , such as traditional mercury thermometers, and acknowledging that their effectiveness can be impacted by ambient temperatures.
(19) To determine if a tympanic membrane thermometer is of benefit on a pediatric unit.
(20) A mathematical model has been developed to determine the spatial resolving power of these thermometers.
Thermostat
Definition:
(n.) A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parenterals, sterile preparations intended to be injected in man or animal, should be free from pyrogenic substances which are able to raise the thermostatic setting in the hypothalamus.
(2) Modifications described provide two high temperature thermostats and one low temperature thermostat, which shut the unit down if the temperature limits are exceeded.
(3) Sequential elution conditions are fully programmable by virtue of a 32K BBC microcomputer interfaced with an elution buffer selection valve and a thermostatically controlled column.
(4) A novel incubation device, a thermostatically controlled ultrasonic bath, is used to produce highly uniform enzyme reaction rates.
(5) The requirements of a thermostatic description are introduced; then those of nonequilibrium thermodynamics are added.
(6) It's tempting to turn your thermostat up on colder days.
(7) Change your approach to energy consumption Turn your heating and hot water thermostats down.
(8) The construction facilitates the even distribution of the circulating water, and a thermostatic control allows the temperature to be fixed at any level required.
(9) Thermostatic regulation of tissue temperature is provided by on-off control of the average power supplied independently to each heating jig.
(10) Evidence of complex responses of the "thermostat" at a reptilian level of organization
(11) Since we doubted the accuracy of the measurements made with this device, we compared the values found using this thermometer with values from a conventional mercury thermometer, both in a thermostatic regulated water bath and when used clinically.
(12) It will.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Americans are connecting more and more of their devices – their refrigerators, their thermostats, their cars, their door locks – to the internet.
(13) Connected to a smartphone app, it also lets users control the thermostat when on the go.
(14) The effect of ICV administered TSH on Brobeck's thermostatic hypothesis was evaluated by recording chronological changes in electrical activity of precise loci (POA, VMN and CO) coupled by rectal temperature changes in dogs.
(15) Draught-free homes are comfortable at lower temperatures, so you'll be able to turn down your thermostat, which could save another £55 a year.
(16) Cells freshly seeded into the closed culture flasks or dishes and placed on the metal tray with holes of the thermostat or incubator are seen to form the layer with uneven density: with high density corresponding to the flask bottom regions above the metal and low density corresponding to the flask bottom region above the holes in the tray.
(17) Higher ranges of temperature (38-44 degrees C) were achieved by a thermostatically controlled disc heater.
(18) The transfer of the samples from field conditions to a laboratory was imitated by putting the case with the samples into a thermostat at the temperature of 20 degrees C and 37 degrees C. In the first trial, at the temperature of 20 degrees C, statistically significant changes in pH values were recorded in seven hours.
(19) He was mocked – three decades before global warming became a fashionable concern – for walking around the White House, turning down the thermostats.
(20) The chromatographic system must be stable, and efficient thermostatting is essential.