Benefits: The dramatic pressure changes between abdomen and chest caused by this type of breathing greatly amplify the packing and draining of blood and energy in the abdominal organs and greatly enhance the force-pump effect of the diaphragm on venous circulation. ❋ Daniel Reid (1989)
For the heart, the major benefits come from using the diaphragm as a force-pump for circulation. ❋ Daniel Reid (1989)
But its haemodynamic power is much greater than that of cardiac contractions because the surface of the force-pump is much greater and because its propelling power is superior to that of the heart. ❋ Daniel Reid (1989)
It is the most powerful muscle in our body; it acts like a perfect force-pump, compressing the liver, the spleen, the intestines, and stimulating the whole abdominal and portal circulation. ❋ Daniel Reid (1989)
They renewed and increased their labors at the force-pump, and the impetuous torrent came surging about the diver's ears. ❋ Various (N/A)
The basement will be eleven feet high, mostly above ground, and will serve for the force-pump, heating apparatus, and for rough storage. ❋ Various (N/A)
The veins have no force-pump, like the arteries, to propel their contents towards their destination. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)
Fit up the filtering apparatus as in the accompanying diagram (Fig. 209), interposing the wash-bottle with sulphuric acid between the filter flask and the force-pump (in the position occupied in the diagram by the central vertical line), and placing another screw clamp on the rubber tubing connecting the lateral arm of the filter flask with the wash-bottle. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Now the piston in the force-pump is about one inch in diameter. ❋ Various (N/A)
When these vats were empty, they were filled from barrels in the cellars beneath by means of a force-pump. ❋ Various (N/A)
The force-pump is broken and all the bowls and their marble slabs smashed to get out the plated cocks, which the negroes thought pure silver. ❋ Elizabeth Ware [Editor] Pearson (N/A)
Thence it would feed itself up into the carbureter of the working engine by a force-pump attached to the engine, as with the gasoline. ❋ Chelsea Curtis Fraser (N/A)
But it is not air shaken by reflected blows: it is the cascades driven into the enclosing helmet by the force-pump. ❋ Various (N/A)
After carefully clearing the face of the mould of all extraneous matter by a stream of water from a force-pump, it is washed with a solution of iron filings and blue vitriol which forms a primary copper facing. ❋ Various (N/A)
This was attached to a good-sized force-pump, the feedpipe of which was in the river. ❋ Burbank L. Todd (N/A)
"Here she comes!" cried the fisherman, as some of his companions came rushing from a shed with an ancient style of hand fire-engine, consisting of a tank, on wheels, with a force-pump arrangement, worked by long handles. ❋ Victor [pseud.] Appleton (N/A)
A force-pump, a common old-style fire-engine, was rigged up, the nozzle and hose bound to a huge pile, to equal which the tallest pine ❋ Various (N/A)
Divers could sit inside, and fresh air was supplied by a force-pump. ❋ Harriet A. Cheever (N/A)
None of the other stanzas contain personal matter; the grief of the author of _Great Britain's Sun's-set_ seems as artificial as might be expected; and his tears were probably brought to the surface by the usual pecuniary force-pump. ❋ Various (N/A)
The liquid is made by mixing with water, and for large plants and trees is put on with a spray or force-pump that carries the poison to every part of the plant. ❋ Mary Huston Gregory (N/A)
