| check ligaments of eyeball | <anatomy> Medial and lateral, expansions of the sheaths of the medial and lateral rectus muscles of the eyeball which are attached, respectively, to the lacrimal bone and to the orbital tubercle of the zygomatic bone; they serve to prevent overaction of these muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| check ligaments of odontoid | One of a pair of short stout bands that extends from the side of the dens of the axis to the tubercle on the medial aspect of the occipital condyle. Synonym: check ligaments of odontoid. Synonym: alar folds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| d check | A comparison of consecutive values for a given test in a patient's laboratory file used to detect abrupt changes, usually generated as a part of computer-based quality control programs. Synonym: d check. (05 Mar 2000) |
| delta check | A comparison of consecutive values for a given test in a patient's laboratory file used to detect abrupt changes, usually generated as a part of computer-based quality control programs. Synonym: d check. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blood glucose meter | A machine that helps test how much glucose (sugar) is in the blood. A specially coated strip containing a fresh sample of blood is inserted in a machine, when then calculates the correct level of glucose in the blood sample and shows the result in a digital display. Some meters have a memory that can store results from multiple tests. (09 Oct 1997) |
| candle-meter | A unit of light or illumination; the reception of a luminous flux of 1 lumen per square meter of surface. Synonym: candle-meter, meter-candle. Abbreviation: lx Origin: L. Light (05 Mar 2000) |
| rate meter | A device that continuously displays the magnitude of events averaged over varying time intervals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventilation meter | A meter used to measure tidal and minute ventilatory volumes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Venturi meter | A device for measuring flow of a fluid in terms of the drop in pressure when the fluid flows into the constriction of a Venturi tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gram-meter | <unit> A unit of energy equal to 100 gram-centimeters. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meter | 1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. 2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. Wt meter, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it. Origin: From Mete to measure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| meter angle | The amount of convergence required to view binocularly an object 1 meter distant and exerting 1 diopter of accommodation. Synonym: unit of ocular convergence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meter-candle | A unit of light or illumination; the reception of a luminous flux of 1 lumen per square meter of surface. Synonym: candle-meter, meter-candle. Abbreviation: lx Origin: L. Light (05 Mar 2000) |
| meter-kilogram-second system | An absolute system based on the meter, kilogram, and second; the basis of the International System of Units. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meter-kilogram-second unit | An absolute unit of the meter-kilogram-second system. (05 Mar 2000) |