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| actual mass or content of water in a measured volume of air, usually expressed in grams per cubic meter or pounds |
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| band of scar tissue that binds anatomic surfaces that normally are separate from each other. Adhesions most commonly form in the abdomen after abdominal surgery, inflammation or injury |
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| abbreviation for ambient terperture, ambient pressure, saturated (with water vapor) |
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| abbreviation for body temperature, ambient pressure, saturated (with water vapor) |
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| phenomenon in hydrodynamics whereby a fluid in motion may be attracted or held to a wall |
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| attractive force between like molecules |
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| change of state from gas to liquid, as with water vapor condensation |
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| transfer of heat by the direct interaction of atoms or molecules in a hot area that contact atoms or molecules in a cooler area |
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| hat transfer through the mixing of fluid molecules at different temperature states via thermal currents |
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| pressure exerted by a vapor in an evacuated container at its crital temperature |
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| in physics, law stating that the total pressure exerted by a mixture of gasses is equal to the sum of the pressures exerted by the individual gasses if they were presented alone in the container |
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| temperature at which water vapor condenses back to its liquid |
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| change in stat of a substance from liquid to gaseous form occurring below its boiling point |
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| difference in pressure between the two points along a tube, devided by the actual flow |
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| use of the bernoulli effect to draw a second fluid into a stream of flow |
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| law stating that the rate of diffusion of a gas through a liquid (or the alveolarcapillary memebrane) is directly proportional to its solubility coefficient and inversely propoertional to the square root of its density |
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| in physics, law stating that the solubility of a gas in a liquid is proportional to the pressure of the gas if the temperature is constant and if the gas does not chemically react with the liquid |
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| energy a body possess by virtue of its motion |
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| pattern of flow consisting of concentric layers of fluid flowing parallel to the tube wall at linear velocities that increase toward the center |
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| principle of physics that the tension on the wall of a sphere is the product of the pressure times the radius of the chamber, and the tension is iversely related to the thickness of the wall |
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| the amount of heat at the substances melting point required to change 1g of the substance from a solid to a liquid |
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| latent heat of vaporization |
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| the amount of heat at a substances boing point required to change 1g of substance from a liquid to a gas |
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| velocity of a fluid moving through a tube and constant flow varies inversely wtith the available cross sectional area |
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| laws that describe the relation between tmeperature and the kinetics of matter changing its state |
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| characteristic temperature at which the solid and liquid forms of a substance are in equilibrium |
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| law stating that a confined liquid transmitts pressure equally in all directions |
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| energy contained in a body as a result of its position in space, internal sturcture and stresses imposed on it |
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| treatment of neoplastic disease by using x-rays or gamma rays, usually from a cobat source, to deter the proliferation of malignant cells by decreasieng the rate of mitosis or impairing doxyribonucleaic acit synthesis |
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| amount of moisture in the air compared with the maximum the air could contain at the same temperature |
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| a dimensionless number used to determin if flow is laminar or turbulen. if the reynold's number is above 2000 flow is turbulent. it is determined by mutiplying the diamter of the systme by the velocity of gas flow times the denisty of the gas dived by the viscosity of the gas |
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| soluable coefficient (gas) |
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| volume of gas that can be dissolved in 1ml of a given liquid at standard pressure and specified temperature |
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| ratio of the density of a substance to the density of another substance accepted as a standard. the usual standard for liquids and solids is water. a liquid or solid with a specific gravity of 4 is is as dense as water at the same temperature. Hyrogen is the usual standard for gasses. |
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| conditions of a volume of gas at 0 degrees C and 760mmHg and containing no water vapor (dry). it should contain a colculable number of moles of a particular gas. |
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| stain-gauge pressure trnasducers |
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| a pressure measuring device that records pressures by the expandsion and contraction ofa a flexible metal diaphragm connected to electrical wires |
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| measure of gas concentrations in a sample calculated by detecting the rate at which different gasses conduct heat |
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| science of the interconversion of heat and work |
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| flow of a fluid that does not occuur in a straight line; flow in which molecules the tumble over each other |
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| process whereby matter in its liquid form is changed into its vapror or gaseous form |
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| internal force that opposes flow of a fluid, either liquids or gases |
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| the pressure exerted by water in its gaseous state |
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