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right side of the heart are the tricuspid valve and the pulmonic valve. The ... * Aortic valve stenosis * Mitral valve prolapse * Valvular cardiomyopathy ...

as other brass instruments, but four-piston valve and rotary valve variants ... Some modern flugelhorns feature a fourth valve that lowers the pitch ...

of an F tuba 12 feet (not including any valve branches). Tubas are considered ... Tubas come in both piston and rotary valve models. Rotary valves are ...

Austria and France still use pistons. Each valve toggles a length of tubing ... quot; or notes available in a given valve combination performed simply ...

category are the trombone family, though valve trombones are occasionally ... the notes of various harmonic series. Each valve pressed diverts the air stream ...

strip. Generally, this is an automatic valve which regulates the flow ... system has a thermostatically controlled valve to regulate the water flow ...

[[Image:FordtaunusV4front.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Poppet valve|Valve]] timing gears on a Ford Taunus V4 engine — the small gear is on the crankshaft ...

in diameter, were made by Conn ("Grand Jumbo" [46K (3-valve ... Holton. Jupiter Company started production of four-valve BB ...

=== Vacuum tube (valve) amplifiers === valve amplifier amplifiers have largely displaced valve amplifiers for low power ...

to change pitches, although the less common valve trombone uses three valves ... mouthpiece, bore and bell dimensions, new valve types and different mute types. ...

power from a thermocouple can activate a valve when a temperature difference ... around 20 mV, operates the gas supply valve responsible for feeding the ...

part. Below the venturi is a butterfly valve called the throttle valve—a ... carburetors are placed after the throttle valve where the pressure is reduced ...

thereby lowering the pitch. The first valve lowers the instrument's ... the usual brace between the bell and a valve body allows the use of a ...

such as: all calls to be played with the first valve down. Some examples of bugle calls: *Adjutant's Call—Indicates that the adjutant ...

atrium, the blood flows through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle. Here it is pumped out the pulmonary semilunar valve and travels through ...

position from the crankshaft to the valve and ignition system, typically with a 2:1 speed reduction. In addition to the above uses, some people ...

1898 – Schrader valve stem patented 1898 – Goodyear Tire and Rubber ... ===Valve Stem=== The valve stem is a tubular rubber shape with a metal ...

of as an electronic version of a check valve. Circuits that require current ... Thermionic diodes are thermionic valve devices (also known as vacuum ...

of the mounting, the pipe itself, and simple valve with a handle, the ветка (vetka). The valve is essentially a funnel with a hole. In the ...

with the cylinder end(s) and are driven by valve gear, of which there are ... The simplest valve gears give events of fixed length during the engine ...

The cardinal anatomic changes of the valve include leaflet thickening, commissural fusion and shortening and thickening of the tendinous cords ...

the water usually travels through a check valve. This prevents water in the ... into zones. A zone is a single Irrigation Valve and one or a group of sprinklers ...

File:Trumpet in c german.jpg|Rotary Valve Trumpet in C ==Methods for ... tube through engaging valves (see rotary valve, piston valve) which route ...

Plumbing (from the Latin word plumbum, meaning "lead") is the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing, and special fixtures for ...

(for example, gauge reading or leaky valve), hard conditions (for example ... tube in baths and kitchen sinks. If the valve sticks open, rather than ...

of 73. She died of complications following heart valve replacement surgery. Less than half a year later, Johnny also died. The 2003 album “Wildwood ...

health took a fatal turn when his mechanical heart valve clotted. He had decided to stop taking his anticoagulant drug, warfarin, which he was supposed ...

Velocity measurements allow assessment of cardiac valve areas and function, any abnormal communications between the left and right side of the heart, ...

technology, "The Liquid Crystal Light Valve." ... or CRT. This is due to their "light valve" nature: some light ...

diver to swim near the surface and have a valve for breathing. It is made ... gas at ambient pressure, modern demand valve regulators ensure the diver ...

Later designs implemented a steam release valve that kept the machine from exploding. By watching the valve rhythmically move up and down, Papin ...

level of Treitz' ligament or the ileocecal valve, two narrow points in the digestive tract. The treatment for gallstone ileus is surgical. ...

The stack contains a damper that works like a butterfly valve and ... * Whitehouse, R.C., (ed.). The Valve and Actuator User's Manual ...

by STS-117 astronauts, a hydrogen vent valve required to begin using the system was installed. Additionally, the ISS crew has sometimes used ...

liquid refrigerant goes through the expansion valve (also called a throttle valve) where its pressure abruptly decreases, causing flash evaporation ...

*1983: Saab introduces the 16-valve turbocharged engine and asbestos-free brake pads. *1985: Saab pioneers direct ignition, eliminating the distributor ...

1924, featuring Charles Yale Knight's sleeve-valve engine. All models were priced by their hp-rating. On October 2, 1902, DMG opened a new ...

resistors in a 1960s [[Vacuum tube|valve]] radio.]] == Identifying ... In vacuum tube or valve electronic circuit design, a grid resistor ...

cardiac bypass surgery to clear a blocked aortic valve. On April 9, of that season the Iron Man of the National Basketball Association, also known as ...

Older engines make use of a mechanical fuel pump and valve assembly ... simpler than the combined pump and valve design, making it generally ...

right ventricle through the pulmonary semilunar valve and into the pulmonary trunk. The trunk branches into right and left pulmonary arteries, which ...

A dry dock is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest ...

* Examples: Supersonic ramjet, scramjet, needle valve * In this case the gas ahead of the shock is supersonic (in the laboratory frame), and the ...

location, 2 centimeters below the ileocaecal valve, the location of the tip of the appendix can vary from being retrocaecal or behind the cecum (74 percent ...

success of some games. Developers such as id, Valve, Crytek, Epic, and Blizzard Entertainment ship their games with the very development tools used to ...

Graphite is one of the two common but distinctively different forms or allotropes of carbon, the other being diamond. Graphite holds the distinction ...

and desiccation. Protruding from a valve is an enlarged structure called the umbo, which indicates the dorsal surface of the mussel. ...

"A" or "wet" battery in valve/vacuum tube radio sets. The ... ** Gel battery is a rechargeable valve regulated lead-acid battery ...

wedding, he had to be hospitalized for a heart valve replacement. While in the hospital he had a heart attack and became a candidate for a heart replacement ...

right|Scanning electron micrograph of a spiracle valve - the organ that allows fresh air to pass into the cricket's respiratory system]] ...

that as temperature rises opens a valve to cooling water to speed controllers such the cruise control system in an automobile. The programmable ...

after undocking from space station Salyut 1. A valve on their spacecraft had accidentally opened when the service module separated, letting their air ...

since most have a single shell, or valve, which is characteristically coiled or spiraled, as in snails, limpets, abalones, cowries, whelks, ...

A side effect of the lead additives was protection of the valve seats ... fuel without need for additives to prevent valve problems. ...

of life preservers, and Goodyear noticed that the valve used to inflate the preservers did not operate well. He created his own design, and reported ...

on the two sides of the piston was one. A throttle valve to control the power of the engine, and a centrifugal governor to keep it from "running ...

amount of oxygen using a regulator valve. However, extended, heavy use of inhaled nitrous oxide has been associated with Olney's Lesions. ...

A traditional fountain is an arrangement where water issues from a source (Latin fons), fills a basin of some kind, and is drained away. Fountains ...

The invention of the piston and rotary valve by Stolzel and Bluhmel, both Silesians, in 1815, was the first in a series of innovations, including ...

[[Image:Walschaerts_motion.gif|frame|Walschaerts valve gear in a steam locomotive. In this animation, the red color represents live steam entering ...

equipped with a governor, a centripetal feedback valve for controlling the speed of the engine. Alfred Russel Wallace identified this as the principle ...

in pressure by passing through a throttling valve or other throttling device. This process is one of the simplest unit operations. ...

A calculator is a device for performing calculations. Modern calculators often incorporate a general-purpose computing system, but they are often ...

Siemens AG, instead of the more common solenoid valve devices. === Frequency standard === The piezoelectrical properties of quartz are useful ...

are usually fitted with a non-return valve, which eliminates this need. The air supply is provided to the bag which then supplies its air to ...

Bubber Miley. Later in the decade, Juan Tizol’s valve trombone added a third voice for that instrument. His smooth, atmospheric playing had a Latin ...

can. At the bottom of the TDU is a large ball valve. An ice plug is set on top of the ball valve to protect it, the cans on top of the ice plug. ...

special part of the tongue called the "palatal valve" closes off their respiratory system when they are underwater. This way they can open ...

prone areas include installation of an earthquake valve to instantly shut off the natural gas supply to the property, seismic retrofits of property ...

His wife June Carter Cash died of complications following heart valve replacement surgery on May 15, 2003, at the age of 73. June had told Cash ...

keeps one of the two valves and grows a smaller valve within it. As a result, after each division cycle the average size of diatom cells in the population ...

For example, when a draw note is played, the valve on the blow reed-slot is sucked shut, preventing air from leaking through the inactive blow reed ...

may or may not additionally induce the growth of a valve in the xylem, but the idea is that the plant would harness the power of the wind to pump out ...

The Titan features a 32 valve 5.6 L VK56DE V8 engine which generates 305 hp, and is capable of towing approximately 9500 pounds. The Nissan Titan ...

of the oscillating vacuum-tube (valve). In 1920, employing a vacuum-tube transmitter, the Chelmsford Marconi factory was the location for the ...

An almost complete chassis with the engine, some pipe work, the valve gear and the steering gear. The wheels, boiler and bodywork are missing ...

his one-man tour for surgery to replace his aortic valve, repair his mitral valve, and correct his irregular heartbeat.Kathleen Doheny, [https://www ...

first due to Jagger's surgery for a heart valve replacement, and then due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rolling Stones—featuring Jagger ...

nitrogen or argon gas with a pyrotechnic operated valve ("hybrid gas generator"), while other technologies use various energetic propellants ...

interest), INSELA (a Venezuelan gas valve and electrical equipment manufacturer in which Enron held 50%), and Enron's paper and forest ...

as each kernel is enclosed in a very hard bi-valve shell. However, George Beadle demonstrated that the kernels of teosinte are readily "popped ...

Sardar Sardev Singh, who owned a ball bearing and valve factory. title= The renaissance of Harbhajan| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/1638947 ...

The Russian battleship Potemkin ( Князь Потёмкин Таврический|translit=Kniaz Potyomkin Tavricheskiy , "Prince Potemkin ...

An electric motor converts electrical energy into kinetic energy. The reverse task, that of converting kinetic energy into electrical energy ...

were drawn into the instrument through a valve mechanism designed to sequentially connect up to 32 rooms to the mass spectrometer. A computer ...

boolean algebra, the vacuum tube (thermionic valve), and the teleprinter. During the first half of the twentieth century, many scientific computing ...

were once commonly supplied with vacuum tube (valve) equipment, such as domestic tape recorders. Their high output impedance matched the high input ...

Michael S. Fuhrer, "Gate-tunable Graphene Spin Valve" Applied Physics Letters 91 (2007):123105.Megumi Ohishi, et al., "Spin Injection ...

separate atria, and are directed via a spiral valve to the appropriate vessel—aorta for oxygenated blood and pulmonary vein for deoxygenated blood. ...

In June 2014, Glenn underwent successful heart valve replacement surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. John Newsome and Joshua Berlinger, [https://www ...

and translated into light waves via a light valve, a thin ribbon of sensitive metal over a tiny slit. The sound reaching this ribbon would be ...