Sentences with phrase «narrow tube»

Typically, wide primary tubes offer the best gains in power and torque at higher engine speeds, while narrow tubes offer the best gains at lower speeds.

Passing a thin, narrow tube with a magnification device inside the body is called endoscopy, and the instrument is an endoscope.

ONCE upon a time, there was an unconventional US entrepreneur who devised a revolutionary mode of transport that would send people hurtling through narrow tubes at high speeds.

(4) It is more patient - friendly because the patient is not confined to a claustrophobic narrow tube.

11 Carnivorous Genlisea use «lobster pot» traps: narrow tubes lined with inward - curving hairs.

Fat narrows the tube of the airway, and the muscles in the mouth and throat also can lose their tone.

To make the device contract, biomedical engineer Ellen Roche and colleagues lined it with two sets of narrow tubes.

This is good news for clean up since there's no need to wash out the narrow tubing!

• No need to clean the narrow tubing.

No need to clean the narrow tubing and milk stays pure.

As a result the narrow tubing never needs to be cleaned.

An anesthesiologist can carefully insert a narrow tube into her spinal column and deliver a bolus of a numbing medication that should temporarily stop the nerve signals going from her uterus to her brain.

Emerging from the narrow tube made me feel like an overexposed film being pulled from a camera.

So, by some form of voting system — I think it's closer to propawtional representation than furs past the post — the politicians get their constituents to vote online for their canine running mates, and then they have to do the «Doggy Dash» where they are forcibly raced through one of two narrow tubes.

The outside is made of cotton and it's shaped sort of like a long, narrow tube.

He also designed a viscometer for gauging viscosity and a capillarimeter that measured capillary action, the rising of a liquid through a narrow tube.

To figure out which mice were dominant, she and her colleagues released two mice at a time into a narrow tube, one at each end.

Assuming atmospheric pressure at ground level, nine atm is more than enough to «hang» a water column in a narrow tube (tracheids or vessels) from the top of a 100 meter tree.

One way they do so is by means of a kind of bacterial sex in which a bug carrying a resistance gene meets a susceptible mate, snags it with a narrow tube, reels the bug in, then transfers its gene.

Place a cowardly mouse face - to - face with a bold cage - mate in a narrow tube, and it will quickly retreat.

In the narrower tubes the lead has a disordered glassy structure, and in all the tubes it seems to be porous.

It may sound like a surrealist's dream, but according to Frank Steiner at the University of Ulm in Germany, recent observations hint that the cosmos is stretched out into a long funnel, with a narrow tube at one end flaring out into a bell.

Last month, on Feb. 10, scientists at the accelerator circulated a beam of positrons moving close to the speed of light through a narrow tube around the 3 - kilometer circumference of its main ring 10 meters underground.

This wasn't as fast as the researchers would have liked, but during these studies, they discovered that when a cell is squeezed through a narrow tube, small holes open in the cell membrane, allowing nearby molecules to diffuse into the cell.

Pressures within the arteries build up, requiring the heart to pump harder to push blood through the narrowed tubes to the lungs.

Early in development, the vertebrate heart is transformed from a narrow tube into a powerful four - chambered pump.

Other tests using tiny cameras affixed to long, narrow tubes can help diagnose Crohn's disease while ruling out ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, and cancer.

Other tests using tiny cameras affixed to long, narrow tubes can help diagnose Crohn's disease while ruling out ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, and cancer.

Britton was given an IV and taken into surgery, where doctors used an endoscope — a narrow tube with a tiny camera on the end — to locate and remove the metal bushing.

Heartburn is the result of acid reflux, the term used to describe stomach acid that backs up into the esophagus (the narrow tube that connects the mouth and the stomach).

Heartburn is caused by stomach acid that backs up into the esophagus, the narrow tube that connects the throat and stomach.

An endoscopy is a narrow tube with a small camera attached that takes pictures of your digestive tract.

Piping is a trim or edging formed by sewing a thin strip of folded fabric — typically bias binding — into a narrow tube and attaching it to the edge of a piece of fabric.

The soft nipple closely resembles a pacifier, while a narrow tube in the center prevents spills, messes, and wasted medicine.

From the mouth the kibble is broken down into smaller bits so that it can be passed through the narrow tube known as esophagus.

The urethra (the narrow tube connecting the urinary bladder to the outside world) is a difficult place to perform surgery so it is preferrable to move the stone back into the bladder for removal rather than attempting removal from the urethra.

Several feeding tube options are available: Naso - gastric feeding tube A naso - gastric tube (NG tube) is a flexible and narrow tube that is placed from a nostril into the esophagus (the tube between the throat and the stomach).

A narrow tube is placed directly into the upper small intestine.

Male cats may develop enough crystals in the urethra (the narrow tube carrying urine out of the body) to cause an obstruction.

Dr. Richard Goldstein, DVM, associate professor of small animal medicine at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, described asthma, in an article for the Cornell Feline Health Center, as «a constriction of the airways, or bronchi, the two narrow tubes that lead directly from the trachea to the lungs.

Dan Flavin's green fluorescent lightning bolt, made of seven overlapping 4 - foot bulbs, strikes from ceiling to floor but remains peacefully static, like a diagram in a textbook, and Gego's charming square kinetic sculptures, constructed of narrow tubes and chains, casting displaced, unmoving shadows on the wall, are like maquettes of themselves.