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  2. Negative room pressure - Wikipedia

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    Negative room pressure is an isolation technique used in hospitals and medical centers to prevent cross-contamination from room to room. [1] [2] ...

  3. Negative pressure - Wikipedia

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    Negative pressure may refer to: Negative value of a pressure variable; Negative room pressure, a ventilation technique used to avoid contaminating outside areas;

  4. Negative-pressure wound therapy - Wikipedia

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    Negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT), also known as a vacuum assisted closure (VAC), is a therapeutic technique using a suction pump, tubing, and a dressing to remove excess exudate and promote healing in acute or chronic wounds and second- and third-degree burns. The therapy involves the controlled application of sub-atmospheric pressure to ...

  5. Pressure - Wikipedia

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    Pressure is transmitted to solid boundaries or across arbitrary sections of fluid normal to these boundaries or sections at every point. Unlike stress, pressure is defined as a scalar quantity. The negative gradient of pressure is called the force density. [9] Another example is a knife.

  6. Intrapleural pressure - Wikipedia

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    Normally, the pressure within the pleural cavity is slightly less than the atmospheric pressure, which is known as negative pressure. [1] When the pleural cavity is damaged or ruptured and the intrapleural pressure becomes greater than the atmospheric pressure, pneumothorax may ensue. Intrapleural pressure is different from intrathoracic pressure.

  7. Ventilation (firefighting) - Wikipedia

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    The method of negative pressure ventilation is a process of using smoke ejectors to remove the smoke from a building. [3] Negative pressure ventilation is not used as much as positive pressure ventilation for the reason that positive pressure can move more air throughout the structure and clear out more smoke in a timely manner.

  8. Water potential - Wikipedia

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    The pressure potential in a plant cell is usually positive. In plasmolysed cells, pressure potential is almost zero. Negative pressure potentials occur when water is pulled through an open system such as a plant xylem vessel. Withstanding negative pressure potentials (frequently called tension) is an important

  9. Pressure coefficient - Wikipedia

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    of zero indicates the pressure is the same as the freestream pressure. of one corresponds to the stagnation pressure and indicates a stagnation point. the most negative values of in a liquid flow can be summed to the cavitation number to give the cavitation margin. If this margin is positive, the flow is locally fully liquid, while if it is ...