Sentences with phrase «flow in the wrong direction»

When the heart valves are attacked by bacteria they shrink and scar causing blood to flow in the wrong direction.

A murmur is the sound of blood flowing in the wrong direction back into the heart.

When a murmur is heard it can mean either the blood is flowing at an improper speed or the blood is flowing in the wrong direction.

Indeed, I remember myself once deciding that I was no - route even though the stream I was following was flowing in the wrong direction!

Thus there is no surplus energy from DLR left over to warm the subskin and even if there were it is flowing in the wrong direction.

When Julia White (General Manager of the Microsoft Office group) started off her demo by opening up a Word document on her iPad, pretty much everyone who has ever opened a Word document on the iPad nodded at what appeared on the screen: a mangled document with the text flowing in the wrong direction and the graphic above the text.

Not exact matches

In a democracy of desire, money is the absolute good, from which all blessings flow, precisely because it is neutral in respect to values: it contains no judgments of better or worse, no directions about right or wronIn a democracy of desire, money is the absolute good, from which all blessings flow, precisely because it is neutral in respect to values: it contains no judgments of better or worse, no directions about right or wronin respect to values: it contains no judgments of better or worse, no directions about right or wrong.

Since lymph flows through the body in a one - way direction, with valves preventing fluid from going the wrong way, the tissues must always be slowly and gently «pumped» in the same direction as the local flow pattern.

Blood needs to flow in one direction through the heart, valves prevent the backward flow of blood or the flow of blood in the wrong direction.

All of these valves move similar to trapdoors and have a very important function to keep blood flowing forward within their corresponding side of the circulation and prevent backflow in the wrong direction.