Medical Definition of Shock tube

1. A gas-filled tube used in plasma physics to quickly ionize a gas. A capacitor bank charged to a high voltage is discharged into the gas at one tube end to ionize and heat the gas, producing a shock wave that may be studied as it travels down the tube. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shock Tube

shock absorbers
shock antigen
shock diamond
shock index
shock jock
shock lung
shock mount
shock rock
shock sites
shock therapies
shock therapy
shock treatment
shock troop
shock troops
shock tube (current term)
shock wave
shock wave lithotripsy
shock waves
shockability
shockable
shocked
shocker
shockers
shocking
shocking dose
shocking pink
shockingly
shockingness
shocklike

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