Medical Definition of Screw pinch
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A variant on the theta pinch, in which axial currents (as in a z pinch, but less intense) produce a poloidal magnetic field (in addition to the usual longitudinal field), thus making a corkscrew field configuration.
See: theta pinch, z pinch, pinch device.
(09 Oct 1997)
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