Sentence examples for partially obstruct from inspiring English sources

In a 2001 report – 11 years before Orchard's death – Dr Graham Cook raised concerns that the device could partially obstruct a person's airway if used about the head.

The transversal filaments of the spacer partially obstruct the channel flow, producing complex mixing and shear patterns that require multidimensional representation.

When this occlusion is released, there is a brief burst of air, which has led linguists to categorize these sounds as "plosives". Others, such as s, z, and v, are grouped together as "fricatives," because they only partially obstruct the airway, creating friction in the vocal tract.

The faults partially obstruct the waterflood from the central injector, physically upsetting the mathematical mass-balance.

Two crosswise extensions at the bottom of the cylinder guide the roots and partially obstruct the seed-holder, so retaining the agar.

In Arp2 and, especially, Arp3, these inserts partially obstruct polymerization and prevent rapid, bidirectional elongation of filaments that is characteristic of eukaryotic actins.

He said that even if a chimney is only partially obstructed by an abandoned nest, the obstruction could reduce the ability of the chimney to vent gases from the house.

After stable baseline recordings for 30 minutes, the mechanical ventilator was again disconnected, and after a 2-minute apneic period, ventilation with EVA was initiated in random order with different degrees of ETT obstruction: left open to room air, partially obstructed via a capping device with either a 3-mm orifice or a 50-mm long, 2-mm ID tubing, or completely patent.

CONS: River views are partially obstructed by nearby buildings.

The most variable structural moiety of the NPC was a rather tenuous central plug partially obstructing the central pore.

Control is by means of a movable element that opens, shuts, or partially obstructs an opening in a passageway.