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coil 1, verb(dictionary)
coil 2, noun(dictionary)

quicksand (medicine) and baseball coil (medicine)


quicksand (medicine)


quicksand
Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it. "Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!" (Longfellow)

Source: Websters Dictionary


baseball coil (medicine)


Baseball coil
<radiobiology> Used in magnetic-mirror geometries to produce a minimum-B configuration, so-called because of their resemblance to the characteristic shape of stitches on a Baseball.