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invented in 1833 by the
Scottish physician Neil Arnott. Dr. Arnott's
Hydrostatic Bed was
devised to
prevent bedsores in patients, and
comprised a bath of...
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Hydrostatic shock, also
known as hydro-shock, is the
controversial concept that a
penetrating projectile (such as a bullet) can
produce a
pressure wave...
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Bed rest, also
referred to as the rest-cure, is a
medical treatment in
which a
person lies in
bed for most of the time to try to cure an illness.
Bed...
- of the bed is
relatively horizontal,
which is
analogous to
hydrostatic behavior. The
bed can be
considered to be a
heterogeneous mixture of
fluid and...
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pulmonary hypertension. It can also
occur in
patients with
increased hydrostatic venous pressure or
decreased oncotic venous pressure, due to obstruction...
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Macintosh and
Company to
produce a
water or '
hydrostatic bed for invalids',
there is no
evidence that air or
water beds were ever used on a
large scale in hospitals...
- venules. The
resistance of the
efferent arterioles causes sufficient hydrostatic pressure within the
glomerulus to
provide the
force for ultrafiltration...
- have
moved by peristalsis,
constricting muscles against the animal's
hydrostatic skeleton, and may have
possessed a coelom, mouth, ****, and through-gut...
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movement of
fluid depends on six variables:
Capillary hydrostatic pressure (Pc)
Interstitial hydrostatic pressure (Pi)
Capillary oncotic pressure (πc) Interstitial...
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Materials (ASTM) as a
material that
resists the p****age of
water with no
hydrostatic pressure.
Waterproof is
defined by the ASTM as a
treatment that resists...
