pressure measurements
1Pressure measurement — The construction of a bourdon tube gauge, construction elements are made of brass Many techniques have been developed for the measurement of pressure and vacuum. Instruments used to measure pressure are called pressure gauges or vacuum gauges. A… …
2Pressure sensor — Digital air pressure sensor Compact digital barometric pressure sensor A pressure sensor measure …
3Pressure controlled intermittent mandatory ventilation — (PC IMV) is any mode of mechanical ventilation with preset inspiratory pressure (Pressure Control) and inspiratory time (Ti). Spontaneous breaths (i.e., inspiration is patient triggered and patient cycled) can exist between mandatory breaths… …
4Pressure head — is a term used in fluid mechanics to represent the internal energy of a fluid due to the pressure exerted on its container. It may also be called static pressure head or simply static head (but not static head pressure). It is mathematically… …
5Pressure — This article is about pressure in the physical sciences. For other uses, see Pressure (disambiguation). Pressure as exerted by particle collisions inside a closed container …
6Blood pressure — For information about high blood pressure, see Hypertension. Blood pressure Diagnostics A sphygmomanometer, a device used for measuring arterial pressure. MeSH …
7Intraocular pressure — (IOP) is the fluid pressure inside the eye. Physiology and measurementIntraocular pressure is mainly determined by the coupling of the production of aqueous humor from the eye s ciliary body and its drainage through the trabecular meshwork and… …
8Copper units of pressure — or CUP, and the related lead units of pressure or LUP, are terms applied to pressure measurements used in the field of internal ballistics for the estimation of chamber pressures in firearms. These terms were adopted by convention to indicate… …
9Impact pressure — is the difference between pitot pressure (also known as stagnation pressure) and static pressure. [ [http://www.answers.com/topic/impact pressure DoD and NATO definition of impact pressure] Retrieved on 2008 10 01] [ [http://www.thefreedictionary …
10Negative pressure — may refer to: negative pressure as opposed to positive pressure stretched liquid vacuum negative gauge pressure, a way of expressing pressure measurements below atmospheric pressure suction transpirational pull See also pressure positive pressure …
