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- Backflow is a term in plumbing for an unwanted flow of water in the reverse direction. It can be a serious health risk for the contamination of potable...
- A backflow prevention device is used to protect potable water supplies from contamination or pollution due to backflow. In water distribution systems,...
- The term Eurasian backflow, or Eurasian back-migrations, has been used to describe several pre-Neolithic and Neolithic migration events of humans from...
- A reduced pressure zone device (RPZD, RPZ, or RPZ valve) is a type of backflow prevention device used to protect water supplies from contamination. RPZDs...
- toilets, while avoiding overflow and (in the event of low water pressure) backflow. The modern ball**** was invented by José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez,...
- atrium to the right ventricle during diastole, and to close to prevent backflow (regurgitation) from the right ventricle into the right atrium during right...
- the heart or between heart chambers. It is the circulatory equivalent of backflow in engineered systems. It is sometimes called reflux. The various types...
- hose spigots, hosebibbs, and wall hydrants to have a vacuum breaker or backflow preventer, so that water cannot return through the spigot from the hose...
- blood is maintained by one-way (unidirectional) venous valves to prevent backflow. In the lower limbs this is also aided by muscle pumps, also known as venous...
- to allow blood flow and which then close together to seal and prevent backflow. The mitral valve has two cusps, whereas the others have three. There are...