Sentences with phrase «leaky valve»

Leaky Valve Disease of Older Dogs.

Check lawn sprinkler system for leaky valves and to ensure sprinkler heads are working and adjusted properly.

«These machines,» he explains, «are ideal for searching tasks in unknown or complicated environments — say, looking for people under debris after an earthquake or fixing leaky valves in polluted areas, such as nuclear plants.»

In January 2013, Chad's leaky valves worsened causing heart failure, a buildup of fluid in his lungs.

In a story appearing Thursday in The New York Times, which I wrote with great contributions from Clifford Krauss in Texas and Andrew Kramer in Moscow, experts at the E.P.A. acknowledge publicly for the first time that the flow from standard practices at gas wells, not including leaky valves and the like, is at least 12 times higher than the longstanding agency estimate.

«Leaky Valve Disease» in Older Dogs.

I also like the general suggestion that the congregation can do with a drenching, provided it is conceded that all properly human hydrants have a leaky valve at the rear, to assure that the preacher also gets wet.

Francesco Maisano played a key role in the development of the Cardioband, which enables the tightening of a leaky valve annulus.

He later discovered that two leaky valves were letting in trace amounts of methane into the experiment chamber.

In MR, a leaky valve lets blood travel in the wrong direction on the left side of the heart, causing shortness of breath, fluid retention, irregular heartbeats and fatigue.

Though the exact circumstances of the disaster remain murky, scientists who investigated the evidence in 2013 came up with the theory that a leaky valve or broken wire caused hydrogen to leak into the ship's ventilation shafts, where it was ignited by static electricity from a storm that the airship had flown through.

A murmur is essentially a sound that is heard when there is turbulent blood flow through the heart (i.e. due to a leaky valve).

The degeneration and severity of the leaks progress with time, resulting in enlargement (dilation) of the heart chambers on either side of the leaky valve (Figures 1B, 2).

To compensate for this leaky valve, the heart has to pump more blood with each beat, causing the heart to enlarge over time.This extra work load causes the heart to become ineffective and unable to keep up with the body's demand for blood flow.

In human medicine, it is common for patients with significant CVD to have the leaky valve (s) repaired or replaced by a surgeon.

While mitral valve disease can be from a stricture (abnormal narrowing), most commonly it is associated with a leaky valve or «valvular insufficiency.»

A leaky valve makes your pet's heart work harder, and the harder it works, the bigger it gets.

Leaky valves or heart murmurs are frequently seen in predisposed breeds like the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.

Leaky valves are also found in aging pets and animals with some metabolic conditions like feline hyperthyroidism.

This turbulence of blood as it flows through this leaky valve can often be heard as a heart murmur.

Leaky valves are the most common cause of a heart murmur in a dog.

The test showed Chad's heart murmur was due to leaky valves.

An echocardiogram is used to diagnose nearly all forms of dog and cat heart disease, including the most common form of heart disease in dogs, leaky valves, and in cats, heart muscle disorders.

Valvular disease is also known as «leaky valve disease,» which means the heart's blood pumping system isn't flowing smoothly.

Hence, the «leaky valve.»

Leaky Valve.

A study surveying «leaky valves and pipes in the rapidly growing natural gas industry» observed 50 % more methane leakage than expected, but the extra atmospheric contribution still causes less global warming than coal.

The hospital later confirmed that there was a leaky valve and the victim only received approximately 5 % of the dosage she should have gotten.