Disease of the liver, heart, or lungs, by retarding the circulation in the portal system, causes venous stasis and catarrh in the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane.
Finally, acute gastric catarrh may be excited by all causes that weaken the digestive power either by weakening the gastric juice or by retarding the movements of the stomach.
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Actual or kinetic energy is the energy of an actually moving body, and is measured by the work which it is capable of performing while being brought to rest under the action of a retarding force.
While fluid friction acts as a retarding force in mechanism it converts the mechanical energy required to produce it into its heat equivalent, thus raising the temperature of the mass in a greater or lesser degree.
And more particularly should a policy of non-resistant submission to the projected new order seem expedient in view of the exceedingly high, not to say prohibitive, cost of resistance, or even of materially retarding its fulfillment.
In these states there may be a lowering of bodily temperature, a retarding of the respiration and heart-action, and excessive sluggishness of the action of the bowels.
Edge speaks of a case of chorea in pregnancy in a woman of twenty-seven, not interrupting pregnancy orretarding safe delivery.
This is the method, or principle of retarding the copping motions of the bobbins.
To prevent the resist pastes becoming rapidly crusty, substances apparently useless are mixed with them, but which act beneficially by their hygrometric qualities, in retarding the desiccation.
An increase of soda compensates this retarding action of the metabisulphite of potassium.
In small quantities there is no injurious retarding action, but it will have the effect that the plates obtain very clear shadows in this developer, and that the picture appears slower, and will strengthen more slowly.
This state of affairs, in connection with the large size of the lots, had the effect of retarding the growth of that district.
With barley, wheat and rye 0ยท10% arsenious acid had little or no effect on germination, while an increase in the poison exercised a retarding action.
His science is to make weapons and wings of these passions and retarding forces.
It thus happens that in the hope of checking or retarding the movement toward regulation of business in the interest of the people generally, they have taken refuge behind that abandoned tenet of democracy, the doctrine of non-interference.
It is easily seen that the removal of property qualifications for voting and office-holding has had the effect of retarding the movement toward municipal home rule.
My evidence is demonstrative, for I can always prevent queens from laying the eggs of workers, by retarding their fecundation until the twenty-second or twenty-third day.
We read that tobacco and coca will enable a man to go several days without anything to eat; and we interpret this result as due to the waste-retarding action of these substances.
There is no doubt that alcohol, by its waste-retarding action, will postpone for some time the day of death from starvation.
It may be said that alcohol maintained these persons by retarding the waste of the tissues.
And with it a necessity for the steady retarding of our velocity.
But the retarding of the ship's velocity when nearing a destination required accurate manipulation.
The calculations for retarding are now in operation.
It is delicate work at best, coping with the intricacies of celestial mechanics upon a semicircular trajectory with retarding velocity, and with a make-shift crew we could easily have come upon real difficulty.
This pressure is, of course, supplied by the piston and is a 'back pressure,' retarding the piston and decreasing its power.
And if we advert to the retarding principle which resides in the pendulum, the well known conical pendulum might be substituted for the present one; since from it would arise a regular or equable resistance, opposed to an equable effort.
The retarding of the current as it passes through the water is a difficulty that does not exist with the land telegraph stretched on poles.
Faraday had demonstrated that this retarding was caused by induction between the electricity in the wire and the water about the cable.
Nobody supposed that a handful of French who lacked everything, who seemed forbidden by fortune itself to harbor any hope, would dare to dream of retarding inevitable fate.
Mohammedanism a Relapse; the worst Form of Monotheism, and a retarding Element in Civilization.
Mohammedanism a Relapse; the worst Form of Monotheism, and a retarding Element in Civilization Note Chapter XII.
Hence no such frictional or retardingforce can appreciably exist.
Leave a body alone, free from all friction or other retarding forces, and it will go on for ever.
Again, anything like a retarding effect of the medium through which the planets move would constitute a tangential force, entirely un-directed towards the sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retarding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
