Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A clamp used to regulate or close a flexible tube, especially in laboratory apparatus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clamp for compressing a flexible pipe, either to regulate the flow of a liquid through it or to serve as a stopcock by holding the sides of the tube in contact.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
clamp on aflexible pipe toregulate theflow offluid .
Etymologies
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Examples
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An inspection of the cadaveric diaphragm from below will demonstrate an arrangement like double shears admirably adapted to this "pinchcock" action.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The esophagoscope encounters only the diaphragmatic pinchcock which seems to be at the top of the stomach like the puckering string at the top of a bag.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The author has called the hiatal closure the "diaphragmatic pinchcock."
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The _treatment of diffuse esophageal dilatation_ consists in dilating the "diaphragmatic pinchcock" that is, the hiatal esophagus.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Regurgitation of food from the stomach is normally prevented by the hiatal muscular diaphragmatic closure (called by the author the "diaphragmatic pinchcock") plus the kinking of the abdominal esophagus.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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In passing it may be stated that the pinchcock action, plus the kinking of the esophagus normally prevents regurgitation when a man with a full stomach "stands on his head" or inverts his body.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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It is simply the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open normally in the deglutitory cycle.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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_Treatment of hiatal esophagismus (so-called cardiospasm) _ consists in the over-dilatation of the "diaphragmatic pinchcock" or hiatus esophageus, and in proper remedial measures for the removal of the underlying neurosis.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The top of the stomach seems to be closed by the diaphragmatic pinchcock in the same way that the top of a bag is closed by a puckering string.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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