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US
/ˈsəkʃən/
]
[ UK /sˈʌkʃən/ ]
[ UK /sˈʌkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the act of sucking
- a force over an area produced by a pressure difference
VERB
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empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction
suction the uterus in an abortion -
remove or draw away by the force of suction
the doctors had to suction the water from the patient's lungs
How To Use suction In A Sentence
- The interior of the suction device is sleeved with a nozzle unit device which can inject backwash water to a suction port and the low pressure area of the filter screen part.
- Before scrubbing, gowning, and gloving, the surgeon usually performs a rectal examination and proctoscopy to suction out any remaining stool in the distal rectum.
- Rhinoplasty, tummy tucks, liposuction and eye lifts can provide a psychological boost and restore youthful confidence.
- The pendulum which comes down first, opens a communication with a vacuum, and the resulting suction is used, by a mechanical device, to produce a sudden expansion of the gas that is being examined. Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 - Presentation Speech
- During the baseline phase, not a single patient who was observed had the oral cavity assessed, teeth brushed, lips and mouth moisturized, oropharyngeal area suctioned, or suction tubing changed.
- The suction-stage, middle-stage, discharge-stage, diffusor and bearing support forms a working chamber and shaft, impeller, balance kettle and shaft sleeve are pump rotor parts.
- Ocean fertilization is like the climate equivalent to liposuction. Rebecca Anderson: Climate Science Round-Up: Ocean Fertilization (or Climate Liposuction)
- My vacuum cleaner has very good suction.
- The deaths reviewed in the new study all involved variations on "tumescent" liposuction, a popular technique developed by dermatologists in the late 1980s. Lowdown On Liposuction
- If you have both excess skin and fat one can combine tummy tuck with liposuction, but it has to be moderate liposuction to preserve the blood supply to the skin.