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pinchcock
[pinch-kok]
noun
a clamp for compressing a flexible pipe, as a rubber tube, in order to regulate or stop the flow of a fluid.
pinchcock
/ ˈɪԳʃˌɒ /
noun
a clamp used to compress a flexible tube to control the flow of fluid through it
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pinchcock1
Example Sentences
The esophagoscope encounters only the diaphragmatic pinchcock which seems to be at the top of the stomach like the puckering string at the top of a bag.
It is simply the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open normally in the deglutitory cycle.
The top of the stomach seems to be closed by the diaphragmatic pinchcock in the same way that the top of a bag is closed by a puckering string.
The author has called the hiatal closure the "diaphragmatic pinchcock."
The treatment of diffuse esophageal dilatation consists in dilating the "diaphragmatic pinchcock" that is, the hiatal esophagus.
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