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shock wave

NOUN
  1. a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity
    the explosion created a shock wave

How To Use shock wave In A Sentence

  • The murder sent shock waves through the whole community.
  • As soon as news of the tragedy was announced, shock waves spread rapidly to all parts of the country.
  • Mechanical percussion techniques have been used therapeutically after shock wave lithotripsy to dislodge such calculi from the lower pole of the kidney.
  • No fluorophore was taken up when either the excimer or the ruby laser was used to generate the shock wave.
  • As soon as news of the tragedy was announced, shock waves spread rapidly to all parts of the country.
  • Renal calculi less than 2 cm in size can generally be treated with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
  • When that happens, the particle emits radiation in the form of a ‘shock wave’, widely known as Cerenkov radiation.
  • The impulse is dependent upon the duration of the shock wave as well as its pressure.
  • Mathematical model is established to calculate the shock wave characteristics.
  • Such procedures include magnetic resonance imaging, which is often used to evaluate internal organs, and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, which uses shock waves to break up large kidney stones.
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