| diaphragm |
the muscular membrane dividing the chest and abdomen. Important in expanding the chest for breathing.
Ãâó: www.wildlife.alaska.gov/index.cfm
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| diaphanography |
An exam that involves shining a bright light through the breast to reveal features of the tissues inside. This technique is under study; its value in detecting breast cancer has not been proven. Also called transillumination.
Ãâó: naam-cancer.lle.org/Glossary.htm
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| diaphragm |
In a microphone, a thin, stretched, plastic film, the equivalent of your eardrum. The diaphragm vibrates with sound, then transforms that acoustical energy into an electrical signal that can be amplified.
Ãâó: www.seymourduncan.com/website/support/glossary.sht...
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| diaphragm |
Term used by Parker for the "inverted" rubber sacs used in vacumatic filling pens (Vacumatics, 51s, etc.). The sac seals the pen barrel and helps create the vacuum during filling, but does not hold the ink in the sense that a conventional sac does.
Ãâó: www.rickconner.net/penoply/glossary.html
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| diaphragm |
flexible partition of miscles and tendons separating the chest and abdominal cavities.
Ãâó: choirsinger.com/vocgloss.html
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