Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flight garment worn by astronauts and jet pilots that presses on the lower body to maintain the blood supply to the brain during rapid vertical acceleration.
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- noun A
suit designed to maintain the supply ofblood to thehead during violentacceleration
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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By the time of the Vietnam War a G-suit, with its inflatable bladders, could substitute for the suppleness of young muscles, and electronics went far to make up for reflexes that were no longer youthful and fast.
A Man On a Mission Daniel Ford 2010
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By the time of the Vietnam War a G-suit, with its inflatable bladders, could substitute for the suppleness of young muscles, and electronics went far to make up for reflexes that were no longer youthful and fast.
A Man On a Mission Daniel Ford 2010
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By the time of the Vietnam War a G-suit, with its inflatable bladders, could substitute for the suppleness of young muscles, and electronics went far to make up for reflexes that were no longer youthful and fast.
A Man On a Mission Daniel Ford 2010
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Statistics are scarce about how many pilots were saved or planes shot down thanks to the G-suit.
A Research Physician's Innovations Bore Fruit in Unexpected Ways 2009
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He participated in experiments in which a G-suited fighter pilot flew the clinic's experimental Douglas Dauntless dive bomber, the G-Whiz, while Dr. Wood sat in back without a G-suit, as control.
A Research Physician's Innovations Bore Fruit in Unexpected Ways 2009
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She had little time to register before whoever it was, in a streamlined G-suit, collapsed in front of her.
In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance – update 2009
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Bob, who asked that his full name not be used because of the sensitivity of his job, has for now turned in his G-suit to be a desk jockey with a joystick.
Laparoscopic Lobotomic War Fetishes Boris 2009
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/Ph.D. research physician, whose contributions spanned more than the G-suit, including heart catheterization, 3-D heart imaging and technology for the fingertip blood-oxygen monitor and the heart-lung machine.
A Research Physician's Innovations Bore Fruit in Unexpected Ways 2009
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Bob, who asked that his full name not be used because of the sensitivity of his job, has for now turned in his G-suit to be a desk jockey with a joystick.
Archive 2009-07-01 Edstock 2009
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Using the G-suit plus the M-1 meant that a pilot could survive perhaps 7 Gs or more without experiencing G-Loc, as blackouts were termed, for loss of consciousness.
A Research Physician's Innovations Bore Fruit in Unexpected Ways 2009
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