Fluid - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: fluidCorrosive fluid
Corrosive fluid. Throwing corrosive fluid with in-tent to do serious bodily harm is an offence under the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 29....
Fluidness
The state of being fluid fluidity...
Pasteurs fluid
An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms It contains all the elements of protoplasm and was originally made of the ash of yeast some ammonia compound sugar and water...
Hydrodynamics
That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids or as usually limited which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids whether as investigated mathematically or by observation and experiment the principles of dynamics as applied to water and other fluids...
Caisson disease
A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure as in caissons diving bells etc It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms It is caused by the release of bubbles of gas usually nitrogen from bodily fluids into the blood and tissues when a person having been in an environment with high air pressure moves to a lower pressure environment too rapidly for the excess dissolved gases to be released through normal breathing It may be fatal but can be reversed or alleviated by returning the affected person to a high air pressure and then gradually decreasing the pressure to allow the gases to be released from the body fluids It is a danger well known to divers It is also called the bends and decompression sickness It can be prevented in divers by a slow return to normal pressure or by using a breathing mixture of oxygen combined with a gas having low solubility in water such as helium...
Drop
The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass a liquid globule a minim hence also the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid a small quantity as a drop of water...
Fluidounce
See Fluid ounce under Fluid...
Fluidrachm
See Fluid dram under Fluid...
Gas
An aeumlriform fluid a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic as oxygen hydrogen etc in distinction from vapors as steam which become liquid on a reduction of temperature In present usage since all of the supposed permanent gases have been liquified by cold and pressure the term has resumed nearly its original signification and is applied to any substance in the elastic or aeumlriform state...
Gush
A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase an emission of a liquid in a large quantity and with force the fluid thus emitted a rapid outpouring of anything as a gush of song from a bird...
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