Crossword-Solution: DIAPHRAGM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Diaphragm | n. | A dividing membrane or thin partition, commonly with an opening through it. |
| Diaphragm | n. | The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff. |
| Diaphragm | n. | A calcareous plate which divides the cavity of certain shells into two parts. |
| Diaphragm | n. | A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope. |
| Diaphragm | n. | A partition in any compartment, for various purposes. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “DIAPHRAGM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PARTITION separating thorax from abdomen | 1 answer |
| Muscle important in respiration | 1 answer |
| sounding board | 1 answer |
| sound box | 1 answer |
| singing muscle | 1 answer |
| muscular partition that separates the abdominal cavity and chest cavity | 1 answer |
| breathing muscle | 1 answer |
| WALL separating one area from another | 1 answer |
| Vibrating disk. | 1 answer |
| Partition between thorax and abdomen | 1 answer |
| PLANT tissue, partition in | 1 answer |
| PARTITION separating one area from another | 1 answer |
| PARTITION in gastropod | 1 answer |
| Muscle that controls breathing | 1 answer |
| MUSCULAR partition | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE separating thorax from abdomen | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE of inspiration | 1 answer |
| GASTROPOD, partition in | 1 answer |
| SHELL, partition in | 2 answers |
| Dividing membrane | 2 answers |
| BIRTH control technique for the female | 3 answers |
| midriff | 11 answers |
| Lamina | 19 answers |
| Divide | 64 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with DIAPHRAGM (5)
Another Method.—The best and simplest mode with which we are acquainted is to divide an earthenware vessel with a diaphragm: one side should be filled with a very dilute solution of sulphuric acid, and the other with either a solution of ferroprussiate of potash, or muriate of soda, saturated with chloride of silver.
Farquharson has an account of a singular case in midwifery in which abdomen ruptured from the pressure of the fetus; and quite recently Geoghegan illustrates the possibilities of uterine pressure in pregnancy by a postmortem examination after a fatal parturition, in which the stomach was found pushed through the diaphragm and lying under the left clavicle.
These impulses, according to Bell's theory, correspond in form to the sound-waves, and passing over the line energize the magnet coil at the receiving end, and by varying the magnetism cause the receiving diaphragm to be similarly vibrated to reproduce the sounds.
From these and other discoveries which had been made by Noad, Wertheim, Marrian, and others, Reis knew that if the current which had been interrupted by his vibrating diaphragm were conveyed to a distance by a metallic circuit, and there passed through a coil like that of Page, the iron needle would emit a note like that which had caused the oscillation of the transmitting diaphragm.
Now, the average weight of the stomach is eight ounces, therefore it can develop a force of 117,088 pounds, and this may be further assisted by the diaphragm and abdominal muscles the power of which, estimated in the same way, equals 461,219 pounds! Well may Pitcairne add that this force is not inferior to that of any millstone."(36) Paracelsus gave an extraordinary stimulus to the study of chemistry and more than anyone else he put the old alchemy on modern lines.
Quotes with DIAPHRAGM (3)
-I love you, Lenny.-From the diaphragm.-What are you talking about?-You have to say it from the diaphragm. That's a muscle in here. Real deep, not from the throat. I tried to be an actor once and that's the first thing they told me. That's when I quit. I just didn't have that much in my diaphragm.
That’s what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes a blank, unreadable mask.
She and Naomi had joked about the sexuality of camera apertures, that they needed to write a woman’s monograph on the symbolism and cultural relevance of the mechanics of image-making as it related to sex, so that, for example, stopping down the fixed 35mm lens’s diaphragm — elegantly composed of nine shutter-leaf blades — to a tight f/16 would be the equivalent of a Kegel pelvic floor exercise.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–2019).