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forestream en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + stream.

Meanings

1. The initial, early, or forward-positioned part of a stream (all senses); a stream occurring at the ahead or front (of a thing)
   • The white cell count of the forestream urine is higher than in the remainder. Urethritis can be due to meatal stenosis, foreign bodies, a tumour, a periurethral abscess or a diverticulum. 1993, Claus Simon, Wolfgang Stille, Peter J. Wilkinson, Antibiotic therapy in clinical practice:
   • When the forestream is clean, the water gushing out from it must certainly be clean. 2010, Deaconess Floria Alexander-Reindorf, I Exist in All Planes at the Same Time:
   • With strip cup eliminate the forestreams of each teat to detect abnormal milk, to be assured of let-down of milk, and to reduce bacterial count of milk. 1956, Farm and Home News - Volumes 8-9
   • The preheated thermistor bead distal to the jet wascooled, i. e.,changed its electrical resistance, especially on the upstroke phase (the “forestream”) and changed the proximal bead with the collapsing phase of the pulse course immediately before incisura (the “backstream”). 2012, W.F. List, J.S. Gravenstein, D.H. Spodick, Systolic Time Intervals:
   • Furthermore sometimes E. coli O157:H7 can enter milk directly from the [infected] udder, or from the teat duct in the forestream of milk (Wright et al., 1994). 2002, Rosa K. Pawsey, Case Studies in Food Microbiology for Food Safety and Quality:
   • The second derivative of the forestream signal marks exactly the beginning of the upstroke of the pulse wave. 1976, Med Biol Eng, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
   • Their training in English political theory and economics put them among "the forestream" of Japanese who dealt with national problems. 1961, Harvard University. East Asian Research Center, Papers on Japan - Volumes 1-3:
   • The transition models of both Mayle and Dunham are highly dependent on the forestream turbulence intensity. 1994, Journal of Turbomachinery - Volume 116

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