Crossword clues for suction
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suction \Suc"tion\, n. [L. sugere, suctum, to suck; cf. OF. suction. See Suck, v. t.] The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
Suction chamber, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers.
Suction pipe, Suction valve, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively.
Suction pump, the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. See Illust. of Pump.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "act or process of sucking," from Late Latin suctionem (nominative suctio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin sugere "to suck" (see sup (v.2)). As "action produced by a vacuum" from 1650s.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The principle of physics by which matter is drawn from one space into another because the pressure inside the second space is lower than the pressure in the first. 2 The principle of physics by which one item is caused to adhere to another because the pressure in the space between the items is lower than the pressure outside that space. 3 The process of creating an imbalance in pressure to draw matter from one place to another. 4 (cx dentistry English) A device for removing patients saliva during dental operations, saliva ejector. vb. 1 To create an imbalance in pressure between one space and another in order to draw matter between the spaces. 2 To draw out the contents of a space.
WordNet
v. remove or draw away by the force of suction; "the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs"
empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction; "suction the uterus in an abortion"
Wikipedia
Suction is the flow of a fluid into a partial vacuum, or region of low pressure. The pressure gradient between this region and the ambient pressure will propel matter toward the low pressure area. Suction is popularly thought of as an attractive effect, which is incorrect since vacuums do not innately attract matter. Dust is "sucked" into a vacuum cleaner when it is pushed in by the higher pressure air on the outside of the cleaner. The higher pressure of the surrounding fluid can push matter into a vacuum but a vacuum cannot attract matter.
This is similar to what happens when humans breathe or drink through a straw. Both breathing and using a straw involve contracting your diaphragm and muscles around your rib cage. The increased area in your chest cavity decreases the pressure inside creating an imbalance with the ambient air pressure, or atmospheric pressure. This imbalance results in air being pushed into your lungs or liquid being pushed up into a straw and into your mouth.
In medicine, devices are sometimes necessary to create suction. Suction may be used to clear the airway of blood, saliva, vomit, or other secretions so that a patient may breathe. Suctioning can prevent pulmonary aspiration, which can lead to lung infections. In pulmonary hygiene, suction is used to remove fluids from the airways, to facilitate breathing and prevent growth of microorganisms.
In surgery suction can be used to remove blood from the area being operated on to allow surgeons to view and work on the area. Suction may also be used to remove blood that has built up within the skull after an intracranial hemorrhage.
Suction devices may be mechanical hand pumps or battery or electrically operated mechanisms. The plastic, rigid Yankauer suction tip is one type of tip attached to a suction unit. Another is the plastic, nonrigid French or whistle tip catheter. A suction unit is a device for removing liquids or gases by suction it from the patient. Professionals use it to remove mucus, serum or blood from a body cavity. Suction machine is used also for Home Care. Suctioning could remove fluids or mucus from airways. The potential of this machine could be in need also when you have a moist cough, and you’re unable to effectively clear secretions from the throat, or are having difficulty breathing.
Suction is the third studio album by noise rock band Feedtime, released in 1989 by Rough Trade Records.
Usage examples of "suction".
He brought out and raised a section of ladder that looked too frail to hold anybody but had humongous suction cups on it and came out of a kind of black suctioned base.
But while Marchand pressed back against the wall, fighting the suction threatening to pull him loose, Eduard rode the front of the subway train away from him, hurtling from the tunnel and back out into the night.
She could hear the sound of her pussy suctioning him back in with every outstroke, could smell the scent of her own arousal.
The sound of her wet flesh suctioning him back in on every outstroke aroused her just as it always did.
The scene suggested wholesale horror and confusion, men diving from the decks and trying to outswim burning oil or the suction of a great ship going under and overcrowded lifeboats circled by sharks.
Theatre and were now lying, surrounded by postoperative equipment--drainage tubes, suction pumps and the like--fighting, albeit unconsciously, for their lives, unaware that the nurses were fighting even harder.
The women on board had all undergone a little cellular reprofiling procedure to make suction tube use more convenient and less prone to slippage.
They fell simultaneously with a thud that jarred the bathyscaphe, sending up a dark spreading cloud of black viscous-looking mud: for two moments of eternity nothing happened, the bolt was shot, the last hope was gone, when, all in a second, the scaphe trembled, broke suction aft and started to rise.
A man was there, struggling to free himself from the suction beneath the Strid, swept down, doubtless, but a moment before his arrival, perhaps as he stood with his back to the current.
She started the truck, put on her seatbelt, pulled the GPS out of her backpack, unfolded the little suction cup thingy and slapped it on the windshield.
They come equipped with a scalpel, suction pump, and tourniquet, you know.
The thin webs on its feet must each have been three feet across, and there must have been some kind of valvular action to break the suction created as its weight came on each pad in turn.
Juniper Suction is all about how Barleycorn kidnapped some young girl called Persephone, okay?
Heather quietly entered an exclusive West Hollywood surgical clinic and underwent a breast augmentation, a blepharoplasty, a rhinoplasty, a complete rhytidectomy, a chin implant, and suction lipectomies of the thighs, abdomen, and buttocks.
LPNs can give tube feedings, suction patients, do sterile dressings and colostomy care, monitor IVs, and initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, although in such an emergency an LPN is expected to call someone else to follow through.