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MOUTH PIECE [10 records]

Record 1 2024-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
  • Electrodiagnosis
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction
  • Police
CONT

The electronic meter shows your BAC [blood alcohol concentration] in a digital display window after you blow into a mouthpiece attached to the meter. This type of meter is more expensive than the manual type.

Key term(s)
  • mouth piece

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques
  • Électrodiagnostiques
  • Drogues et toxicomanie
  • Police
CONT

Insérer l'embout buccal sur l'éthylotest du côté de l'anneau rouge.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

[A large, heavy, flat piece] developed... for midwater trawling[, ] using plywood sections to spread the trawl mouth.

OBS

Of otter trawl.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Pêche commerciale
OBS

Utilisé dans la pêche au chalut.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
DEF

Opening for a gun.

CONT

In the early gun-loops, the base of the hole is circular for the mouth of the piece and the upper part a slot for sighting. Sometimes the slot has a circular hole at the head... At Kirby Muxloe..., the hole and slot are separated. Later the hole of the gun took various forms, but generally it was widely splayed outward at the sides to give the gun the greatest possible range....

Key term(s)
  • gun loop
  • gunloop

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
  • Architecture
DEF

Meurtrière, ordinairement de forme ovale ou circulaire et surmontée d'un trou de visée, aménagée dans un mur d'un ouvrage de défense pour permettre le tir au canon.

CONT

[...] la galerie de contre-escarpe [...] permet [...] l'observation, la protection du fossé. Dans cette galerie longue d'une cinquantaine de mètres, on observe des casemates, des ouvertures sous formes de meurtrières (permettant le passage des flèches, ou des projectiles lancés par les arquebuses), mais aussi de canonnières. Ces dernières permettent le passage des boulets de canon.

CONT

Les allèges des fenêtres de plusieurs tours comportent aussi des canonnières, consistant en un simple trou rond. [...] On en rencontrera à profusion dont la bouche s'ouvre à l'extrémité inférieure d'une meurtrière verticale. [...] Ailleurs, la canonnière se composera de deux ouvertures légèrement séparées : l'une circulaire [...], l'autre verticale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Arqueología
  • Arquitectura
DEF

Aspillera a través de la cual se dispara un cañon.

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Record 4 2011-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

The leather or chain lip strap attaches to two small loops on the shanks of English Curb and Pelham bits, half way between the mouth piece and rein loops. It lays beneath the point of the chin preventing the horse from playing with or lipping the bit shank.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Pièce suspendue au milieu de l'embouchure, pour décontracter la bouche du cheval et empêcher ce dernier de passer sa langue par dessus.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-10-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

A surgical device fitting between the upper and lower jaws to prevent the mouth from closing during operative procedures of the mouth or throat.

OBS

A mouth gag [or] mouth speculum [is] a device for preventing the mouth from being closed. [It] permits the passage of the hand or an easily damaged piece of equipment such as a rubber stomach tube.

OBS

A Davis-Crowe mouth gag [is an] Instrument used for opening the mouth, depressing the tongue, maintaining the airway, and transmitting volatile anaesthetics during tonsillectomy or oropharyngeal surgery.

OBS

There are many varieties of mouth gags, often wearing the name of their inventor: Davis_boyle mouth gag; Jennings, mouth gag; Seemann-Seifert mouth gag; Whitehead mouth gag; etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
DEF

Instrument destiné à maintenir ouverte la bouche d'un patient.

OBS

Il existe plusieurs modèles [d'ouvre-bouches]; les plus utilisés sont ceux de Heister, d'O'Dwyer et de Roser-König.

Spanish

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Record 6 2008-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

A tube inserted through the mouth and pharynx so that the tongue does not block air flow in an unconscious person.

OBS

[An] oropharyngeal airway(OPA) [is a] curved piece of plastic inserted over the tongue that creates an air passage way between the mouth and the posterior pharyngeal wall. [This device is] useful when the tongue and/or epiglottis fall back against the posterior pharynx in anesthetized or unconscious patients obstructing the flow of air.... This device is poorly tolerated in conscious patients and may induce gagging, vomiting and aspiration.

OBS

An oropharyngeal airway (also known as an oral airway, OPA or Guedel pattern airway) is a medical device called an airway adjunct used to maintain a patent (open) airway.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
CONT

L’obstruction des voies aériennes peut être due à : l’aspiration de sang, de corps étrangers ou de vomissures; l’obstruction par la langue [...]. Un tube oropharyngé assurera alors une voie aérienne suffisante [...].

Spanish

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Record 7 2008-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
OBS

They can be a single roller as centre piece or attached as a player on the bit(mainly among the western curb bits), or a few rollers set round the mouthpiece itself(mainly in the classical riding snaffles, called "roller mouth" or "cherries"). The "Magenis snaffle" has slits in the mouthpiece into which are set the rollers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glassware
  • Ornamental Glassware
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

A matching piece that fits into the mouth of a vessel(e. g., a decanter or cruet) to close it and prevent the contents from evaporating.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Objets en verre
  • Verrerie d'art
  • Vocabulaire général
CONT

Le verre soufflé et l'art du cristal : Il faudra attendre la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle pour que se généralise le bouchon poli dans l'ouverture du flacon même, avec de la potée d'émeri, assurant une parfaite étanchéité.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Objetos de vidrio
  • Cristalería decorativa
  • Vocabulario general
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Record 9 1996-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Period Costumes (Museums and Heritage)
DEF

A covering or enclosing headpiece of ancient or medieval armor.

CONT

The piece of armor which varied most in design was the helmet. This could be steel hat or chapel-de-fer; a salade, or bowl-type covering coming down to the mouth, with a slit at eye level for vision; a barbute, deeper and more cylindrical, resembling a classical Greek helmet a basinet, large and heavy, resting on the shoulders and having a movable visor in front of the face; or an armet, a small helmet completely enclosing the head, with a visor that could be raised to reveal the upper part of the face, and two hinged sidepieces enclosing the lower face and chin.

CONT

... was worn by high and low and that in the 14th century the great cylindrical helm, the professional headpiece ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Costumes anciens (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
DEF

Au Moyen-Âge, grand casque des hommes d'armes enveloppant toute la tête et le visage.

CONT

Mais, au lieu de couvre-nuque, la plupart des heaumes de cette époque portent un long appendice flottant [...]

Spanish

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Record 10 1986-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sports Equipment and Accessories
  • Ice Hockey
CONT

[We recommend] that both external (firmly to helmet) and internal mouth guards be worn; combination of both provides maximum protection to the mouth and teeth.

Key term(s)
  • mouthpiece

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et accessoires de sport
  • Hockey sur glace
CONT

On recommande de porter des protège-dents internes et externes (celui externe solidement attaché au casque); la combinaison des deux assure la protection maximum pour la bouche et les dents.

Spanish

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