| hospital shared services | Cooperation among hospitals for the purpose of sharing various departmental services, e.g., pharmacy, laundry, data processing, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| shared paranoid disorder | A condition in which two closely related persons, usually in the same family, share the same delusions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| shared psychotic disorder | Identical or similar mental disorders, such as a paranoid fixation, usually affecting two members of the same family living together. Synonym: shared psychotic disorder. Origin: Fr. Two (05 Mar 2000) |
| periodontal file | An instrument with a series of ridges or points arranged in rows on its surface, used for scaling or removing dental calculus from the teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| root canal file | A pointed, flexible, steel intracanal instrument used in rasping canal walls. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hedstrom file | A coarse root canal file similar to a rasp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| file | 1. A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc. A file differs from a rasp in having the furrows made by straight cuts of a chisel, either single or crossed, while the rasp has coarse, single teeth, raised by the pyramidal end of a triangular punch. 2. Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. "Mock the nice touches of the critic's file." (Akenside) 3. A shrewd or artful person. "Will is an old file spite of his smooth face." (Thackeray) Bastard file, Cross file, etc. See Bastard, Cross, etc. Cross-cut file, a file having two sets of teeth crossing obliquely. File blank, a steel blank shaped and ground ready for cutting to form a file. File cutter, a maker of files. Second-cut file, a file having teeth of a grade next finer than bastard. Single-cut file, a file having only one set of parallel teeth; a float. Smooth file, a file having teeth so fine as to make an almost smooth surface. Origin: AS. Feol; akin to D. Viji, OHG. Fila, fihala, G. Feile, Sw. Fil, Dan. Fiil, cf. Icel. L, Russ. Pila, and Skr. Pi to cut out, adorn; perh. Akin to E. Paint. To make ful; to defile. "All his hairy breast with blood was filed.Spenser." "For Banquo's issue have I filed mind.Shak." Origin: OE. Fulen, filen, foulen, AS. Flan, fr. Fl foul. See Foul, and cf. Defile, v.t. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |