counter-pressuren.
Opposite or contrary pressure.
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counter-pressure1651
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. i. 3 A resistance, or counter~pressure.
1787 J. Hunter in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 419 The pressure being much greater on the external surface than the counter-pressure from within.
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1040/1 The counter-pressure of the atmosphere in the thorax.
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