| rotation | <dentistry> A movement in which the tooth turned along the long axis of the tooth. (08 Jan 1998) |
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| rotation flap | A pedicle flap that is rotated from the donor site to an adjacent recipient area, usually as a direct flap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rotation therapy | Teletherapy in which a desirable radiation dose distribution is achieved by rotating the patient or machine about an axis passing through the centre of the tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rotational axis | An imaginary line around which a removable partial denture tends to rotate. Synonym: rotational axis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rotational nystagmus | Jerky nystagmus arising from stimulation of the labyrinth by rotation of the head around any axis and induced by change of motion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rotational transform | <radiobiology> \iota = 2PI/q) Due to the combination of applied toroidal field and induced poloidal field, the magnetic field lines wind helically around the torus (and on most flux surfaces they fill the surface ergodically). The rotational transform is a measure of this helicity, and is defined as the average angle the field line shifts in the poloidal direction per complete circuit in the toroidal direction. The quantity q = 2\pi / \iota is known as the "safety factor'' because of its role in stability theory. A magnetic field configuration is said to posses rotational transform if the lines of force, after one complete circuit around the configuration (for example, a torus) do not simply close exactly on themselves, but are instead rotated through some angle about the magnetic axies. (13 Nov 1997) |
| centre of rotation | A point or line around which all other points in a body move. See: axis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| short rotation energy plantation | Plantings established and managed under short-rotation intensive culture practices. (05 Dec 1998) |
| short rotation intensive culture | Intensive management and harvesting at 2 to 10 year intervals of cycles of specially selected fast- growing hardwood species for the purpose of producing wood as an energy feedstock. (05 Dec 1998) |
| intestinal rotation | See: malrotation. Molecular rotation, one hundredth of the product of the specific rotation of an optically active compound and its molecular weight. Optical rotation, the change in the plane of polarization of polarised light of a given wavelength upon passing through optically active substances; measured in terms of specific rotation by polarimetry, an important tool in chemical structural work, especially on carbohydrates. Specific optical rotation ([a]), the arc through which the plane of polarised light is rotated by 1 gram of a substance per milliliter of water when the length of the light path through the solution is 1 decimeter, typically using light corresponding to the D line of sodium. (05 Mar 2000) |