| height-length index | The relation of the height to the length of the skull: (height × 100)/length. Synonym: height-length index, length-height index, transversovertical index. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| length-height index | The relation of the height to the length of the skull: (height × 100)/length. Synonym: height-length index, length-height index, transversovertical index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| length-breadth index | The ratio of the maximal breadth to the maximal length of the head, obtained by the formula: (breadth × 100)/length. Synonym: length-breadth index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cusp height | The shortest distance between the tip of a cusp and its base plane, the shortest distance between the deepest part of the central fossa of a posterior tooth and a line connecting the points of the cusps of the tooth. Facial height, the linear dimension in the midline from the hairline to the menton. Nasal height, the distance between the nasion and the lower border of the nasal aperture. Orbital height, the distance between the midpoints of the upper and lower margins of the orbit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| height | Vertical measurement. Anterior facial height (AFH), in cephalometrics, the linear measurement from the nasion to the menton. Height of contour, the line encircling a tooth or other structure at its greatest bulge or diameter with respect to a selected path of insertion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| height of contour | See: height of contour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| height vertigo | Dizziness experienced when looking down from a great height or in looking up at a high building or cliff. Synonym: vertical vertigo. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pulse height analyzer | Electronic circuitry that determines the energy of scintillations recorded by a detector, allowing use of a discriminator to select for photons of a specific type. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diameter at breast height | The width of a plant stem (for example, tree trunk) as measured at 4.5 feet above the ground surface. (09 Oct 1997) |
| active length-tension curve | The relationship between active isometric tension and preload (rest length) for a contracting muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amplified fragment length polymorphism | <technique> Invented by KeyGene, a Dutch biotech company based in Wageningen, Holland. The technique is now merchandised under licence agreement by Perkin Elmer. Selected markers are amplified in a PCR, which makes amplified fragment length polymorphism an easy and fast tool for strain identification in agriculture, botany, microbiology and animal breeding. Acronym: AFLP (05 Feb 1998) |
| arch length | The amount of space required for the permanent teeth as measured from the mesial aspect of the first molar on one side to the mesial aspect of the first molar on the opposite side, as measured through the contact points along an imaginary line of the dental arch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arch length deficiency | The difference between the available circumference of the dental arch and that required to accommodate the succedaneous teeth in proper alignment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| available arch length | <dentistry> The amount of space available for the permanent teeth around the dental arch from the first permanent molar on the left to the first permanent molar on the right. (05 Mar 2000) |
| back focal length | <microscopy> As measured on the principal axis, from the second lens vertex to the back focal point of the lens. It is not the equivalent of the focal length. (05 Aug 1998) |