TETS

See also: tets, Tets, TETs, and têts

English

Noun

TETS

1. (medicine) Initialism of transcutaneous energy transmission system: an experimental subcutaneous device for generating current in heart patients.
   • 2006, Hidekazu Miura, Fumihiro Sato, Hidetoshi Matsuki, Tadakuni Sato, “Primary Power Factor Controlled Transcutaneous Energy Transmission System”, in Future Medical Engineering Based on Bionanotechnology, →ISBN:

     TETS however, has the problems of fluctuation of coupling factor and load resistance. TETS must be controlled to ensure stable power transmission.

   • 2007, Ryohei Saisho, Takuya Ohsugi, Masaya Watada, Yong-Jae Kim, Katsuhiro Ohuchi, Setsuo Takatani, Yong-su Um, “The re-design of Transformer portion in Transcutaneous Energy Transmission System for Left Ventricle Assist Device”, in World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, →ISBN, page 3150:

     The internal unit and TETS coil were implanted into subcutaneous space at the abdominal wall.

   • 2016, Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, Wireless Computing in Medicine, →ISBN:

     A research team from the University of Pennsylvania tested the health effects of the TETS‐powered ventriculus sinister assistant device [63]. They implanted a 160 kHz max power 16.9W TETS system into a cow's body.

2. (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of tetramethylenedisulfotetramine.
   • 2011, Gary Strange, William Ahrens, Robert Schafermeyer, Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Just the Facts, Second Edition, →ISBN:

     TETS binds noncompetitively and irreversibly to GABA receptors on neuronal cell membranes and blocks chloride channels.

   • 2013, GABA Receptors—Advances in Research and Application, →ISBN:

     We characterized TETS as an activator of spontaneous Ca2+ oscillations and electrical burst discharges in mouse hippocampal neruonal cultures at 1317 days in vitro using FLIPR Fluo-4 fluorescence measurements and extracellular microelectrode array recording.

   • 2014, Charlie Charters, Bolt Action, →ISBN:

     And there is no proven antidote to TETS. Once ingested, the poison attacks the membranes of the neurone cells, causing death by convulsion in seconds.

   • 2016, Song Ying, Apricot's Revenge: A Crime Novel, →ISBN, page 158:

     In his stomach and vomit the ME found traces of Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine, commonly known as TETS, or, in simplest terms, rat poison.

Proper noun

TETS

1. (UK, railway) Initialism of Trains Entering Terminal Stations: a failsafe device for stopping trains that are entering a station at the end of a railway line.
   • 2011, Christopher Fowler, Bryant and May Off the Rails, →ISBN, page 128:

     The driver had three hundred quid in his pocket when he died - he was going to put a deposit on a car for his daughter after his shift. That's not the action of a suicide. I suppose some good came out of it, with TETS.

   • 2015, Richard M. Jones, End of the Line - The Moorgate Disaster, →ISBN, page 166:

     The accident led to the introduction of TETS, or Trains Entering Terminal Stations (London Underground) or alternatively Moorgate Control (National Rail), named after the disaster and introduced on all dead-end terminal stations.

Anagrams

• ETTs, Etts, TEST, Test, sett, stet, test