Blow valve
() See Snifting valve. |
Defect
(n.) Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection |
Defect
(n.) Failing |
Defect
(v. i.) To fail |
Defect
(v. t.) To injure |
Double-beat valve
() See under Valve. |
D valve
() A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide. |
False-heart
(a.) False-hearted. |
Heart
(n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. |
Heart
(n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like |
Heart
(n.) The nearest the middle or center |
Heart
(n.) Courage |
Heart
(n.) Vigorous and efficient activity |
Heart
(n.) That which resembles a heart in shape |
Heart
(n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart |
Heart
(n.) Vital part |
Heart
(n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. |
Heart
(v. t.) To give heart to |
Heart
(v. i.) To form a compact center or heart |
Heart-eating
(a.) Preying on the heart. |
Heart-robbing
(a.) Depriving of thought |
Heart-robbing
(a.) Stealing the heart or affections |
Heart's-ease
(n.) Ease of heart |
Heart's-ease
(n.) A species of violet (Viola tricolor) |
Heart-spoon
(n.) A part of the breastbone. |
Heart-whole
(a.) Having the heart or affections free |
Heart-whole
(a.) With unbroken courage |
Heart-whole
(a.) Of a single and sincere heart. |
Heart-wounded
(a.) Wounded to the heart with love or grief. |
Insufficiency
(n.) The quality or state of being insufficient |
Insufficiency
(n.) Want of power or skill |
Kingston valve
() A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line. |
Lion-heart
(n.) A very brave person. |
Pseudo-heart
(n.) Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system. |
Valve
(n.) A door |
Valve
(n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid. |
Valve
(n.) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction |
Valve
(n.) One of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts. |
Valve
(n.) One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom. |
Valve
(n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry. |
Valve
(n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells. |
Valve-shell
(n.) Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata. |
Valvular
(a.) Of or pertaining to a valve or valves |
Valvular
(a.) Containing valves |
White-heart
(n.) A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. |
cardiac massage
heart massage | an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest |
| heart surgery | any surgical procedure involving the heart |
| closed-heart surgery | heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) |
| open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
| valve | one of the paired hinged shells of certain molluscs and of brachiopods |
| valve | the entire one-piece shell of a snail and certain other molluscs |
| heart urchin | sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell |
accelerator
throttle
throttle valve | a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine |
| artificial heart | a pump that replaces the natural heart |
| ball valve | any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball |
| butterfly valve | a valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
cardiac monitor
heart monitor | a piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart |
clack valve
clack
clapper valve | a simple valve with a hinge on one side, allows fluid to flow in only one direction |
diode rectifying tube
rectifying valve | a thermionic tube having two electrodes, used as a rectifier |
| exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
| heart | a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it, he led the queen of hearts, hearts were trumps |
| heart-lung machine | a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery, diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body |
| heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
| intake valve | a valve that controls the flow of fluid through an intake |
Jarvik heart
Jarvik artificial heart | a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success |
poppet
poppet valve | a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat, commonly used in internalombustion engines |
rocker arm
valve rocker | a lever pivoted at the center, used especially to push a valve down in an internalombustion engine |
safety valve
relief valve
escape valve
escape cock
escape | a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler), it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level |
| slide valve | valve that opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port |
sluicegate
sluice valve
floodgate
penstock head gate water gate | regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice |
sodium thiopental
phenobarbital
phenobarbitone
Luminal
purple heart | a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative |
tube vacuum tube
thermionic vacuum tube
thermionic tube
electron tube
thermionic valve | electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope |
| valve | control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid |
| valve | device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone |
| valve-in-head engine | internalombustion engine having both inlet and exhaust valves located in the cylinder head |
| heart spirit | an inclination or tendency of a certain kind, he had a change of heart |
blemish
defect
mar | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body), a facial blemish |
cardiac rhythm
heart rhythm | the rhythm of a beating heart |
heart mettle nerve
spunk | the courage to carry on, he kept fighting on pure spunk, you haven't got the heart for baseball |
insufficiency
inadequacy deficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number, the inadequacy of unemployment benefits |
| defect shortcoming | a failing or deficiency, that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information |
heart
pump
ticker | the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs, its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body, he stood still, his heart thumping wildly |
| athlete's heart | enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance |
| biauriculate heart | a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles |
cardiac muscle
heart muscle | the muscle tissue of the heart, adapted to continued rhythmic contraction |
| ventricle heart ventricle | a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries |
atrium cordis
atrium of the heart | the upper chamber of each half of the heart |
right atrium
right atrium of the heart
atrium dextrum | the right upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the venae cavae and coronary sinus |
left atrium
left atrium of the heart
atrium sinistrum | the left upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the pulmonary veins |
mitral valve
bicuspid valve
left atrioventricular valve | valve with two cusps, situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
tricuspid valve
right atrioventricular valve | valve with three cusps, situated between the right atrium and the right ventricle, allows blood to pass from atrium to ventricle and closes to prevent backflow when the ventricle contracts |
| atrioventricular valve | either of two heart valves through which blood flows from the atria to the ventricles, prevents return of blood to the atrium |
| aortic valve | a semilunar valve between the left ventricle and the aorta, prevents blood from flowing from the aorta back into the heart |
| pulmonary valve | a semilunar valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery, prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart |
| semilunar valve | a heart valve with cusps shaped like half-moons, prevents blood from flowing back into the heart |