| SENSOR | Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risks |
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| SISS | Sentinel Injury Surveillance System [for Gunshot and Stab Wounds] small inducible secreted substance... |
| ASPN | Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network |
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| SLN | Sentinel lymph node |
| SENSOR | Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risk |
| SLND | Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection |
| SN | Sentinel Node |
| sentinel pile | A circumscribed thickening of the mucous membrane at the lower end of a fissure of the anus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pile | 1. To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; often with up; as, to pile up wood. "Hills piled on hills." . "Life piled on life." . "The labour of an age in piled stones." (Milton) 2. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. To pile arms or muskets, to place three guns together so that they may stand upright, supporting each other; to stack arms. Origin: Piled; Piling. 1. A hair; hence, the fibre of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. "Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile." (Cowper) 2. <zoology> A covering of hair or fur. Origin: L. Pilus hair. Cf. Peruke. 1. A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. Tubular iron piles are now much used. 2. [Cf. F. Pile. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. Pile bridge, a bridge of which the roadway is supported on piles. Pile cap, a beam resting upon and connecting the heads of piles. Pile driver, or Pile engine, an apparatus for driving down piles, consisting usually of a high frame, with suitable appliances for raising to a height (by animal or steam power, the explosion of gunpowder, etc) a heavy mass of iron, which falls upon the pile. Pile dwelling. See Lake dwelling, under Lake. <physics> Pile plank, a thick plank used as a pile in sheet piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling. Pneumatic pile. See Pneumatic. Screw pile, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by rotation aided by pressure. Origin: AS. Pil arrow, stake, L. Pilum javelin; but cf. Also L. Pila pillar. 1. A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood. 2. A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. 3. A funeral pile; a pyre. 4. A large building, or mass of buildings. "The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight." (Dryden) 5. Same as Fagot. 6. <physics> A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile. The term is sometimes applied to other forms of apparatus designed to produce a current of electricity, or as synonymous with battery; as, for instance, to an apparatus for generating a current of electricity by the action of heat, usually called a thermopile. 7. [F. Pile pile, an engraved die, L. Pila a pillar] The reverse of a coin. See Reverse. Cross and pile. See Cross. Dry pile. See Dry. Origin: F. Pile, L. Pila a pillar, a pier or mole of stone. Cf. Pillar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| hand pile | A pile of slash constructed by a crew, not by machine. Hand piles are typically less than 10' high and less than 12' in diameter. (05 Dec 1998) |
| thermoelectric pile | <physics> An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat. Origin: Thermo- + pile a heap. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sentinel | 1. One who watches or guards; specifically, a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry. "The sentinels who paced the ramparts." (Macaulay) 2. Watch; guard. "That princes do keep due sentinel." 3. <zoology> A marine crab (Podophthalmus vigil) native of the Indian Ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks. Synonym: sentinel crab. Origin: F. Sentinelle (cf. It. Sentinella); probably originally, a litle path, the sentinel's beat, and a dim. Of a word meaning, path; cf. F. Sente path. L. Semita; and OF. Sentine, sentele, senteret, diminutive words. Cf. Sentry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sentinel animal | An animal deliberately placed in a particular environment to detect the presence of an infectious agent, such as a virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sentinel gland | A single enlarged lymph node in the omentum that may be an indication of an ulcer opposite to it in the greater or lesser curvature of the stomach. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sentinel loop sign | In gastrointestinal radiology, dilatation of a segment of large or small intestine, indicative of localised ileus from nearby inflammation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sentinel spinous process fracture | Fracture of the spinous process with undetected deeper fracture's of the vertebral arch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sentinel surveillance | Monitoring of rate of occurrence of specific conditions to assess the stability or change in health levels of a population. It is also the study of disease rates in a specific cohort, geographic area, population subgroup, etc. To estimate trends in larger population. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sentinel tag | Projecting edematous skin at the lower end of an anal fissure. (05 Mar 2000) |
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