| major connector | A plate or bar (lingual bar, palatal bar) used for the purpose of uniting partial denture bases. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| minor connector | The connecting link (tang) between the major connector or base of a partial denture and other units of the prosthesis, such as clasps, indirect retainers, and occlusal rests. (05 Mar 2000) |
| connector | <dentistry> A part of a partial denture which unites its components. (05 Mar 2000) |
| perilimbal suction cup | A device for increasing intraocular pressure by impeding circulation and aqueous humor flow from the eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Wangensteen suction | A modified siphon that maintains constant negative pressure, used with a duodenal tube for the relief of gastric and intestinal distention. Synonym: Wangensteen tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posttussis suction sound | A sound produced by the falling back of a drop of mucus or pus into a pulmonary cavity after the latter has been emptied by coughing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posttussive suction | A suction sound heard on auscultation over a pulmonary cavity at the end of a cough. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suction | The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. Suction chamber, the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers. Suction pipe, Suction valve, the induction pipe, and induction valve, of a pump, respectively. Suction pump, the common pump, in which the water is raised into the barrel by atmospheric pressure. Origin: L. Sugere, suctum, to suck; cf. OF. Suction. See Suck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| suction cup | One of the cupping glasses of various shapes, formerly used to produce local hyperaemia according to Bier's method. Wet cup, a cupping glass formerly applied to a part previously scarified or incised to draw and remove blood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suction drainage | Closed drainage of a cavity, with a suction apparatus attached to the drainage tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suction ophthalmodynamometer | An ophthalmodynamometer with a suction disk which increases ocular pressure during ophthalmoscopic observation of the retinal artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suction plate | In dentistry, a plate held in place by atmospheric pressure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Abbott's tube | A tube with two lumens, one ending in a small collapsible balloon and the other in a metallic tip with numerous perforations; used for intestinal decompression. Synonym: Abbott's tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| abdominal ostium of uterine tube | The fimbriated or ovarian extremity of an oviduct. Synonym: ostium abdominale tubae uterinae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| air cells of auditory tube | Occasional small air cells in the inferior wall of the auditory tube, near the tympanic orifice, communicating with the tympanic cavity. Synonym: cellulae pneumaticae tubae auditivae, air cells of auditory tube. (05 Mar 2000) |