| static scoliosis | Lateral curvature of the spine due to inequality in length of the legs. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| rachitic scoliosis | Scoliosis occurring as a result of rickets. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| paralytic scoliosis | Lateral curvature of the spine due to paralysis of spinal muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myopathic scoliosis | Lateral curvature due to weakness of the spinal muscles, as in poliomyelitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| coxitic scoliosis | Scoliosis in the lumbar spine resulting from tilting of the pelvis in a case of hip disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| habit scoliosis | Scoliosis supposedly due to habitual standing or sitting in an improper position. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sciatic scoliosis | Scoliosis caused by asymmetric spasm of spinal muscles usually associated with sciatica, usually presenting as a list toward one side. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scoliosis | <anatomy> A congenital lateral curvature of the spine. (27 Sep 1997) |
| ocular scoliosis | Scoliosis supposed to be due to head tilting, caused by ophthalmological dysfunction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| osteopathic scoliosis | Lateral curvature of the spine due to vertebral disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| empyaemic scoliosis | Scoliosis due to retraction of one side of the chest following an empyema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| static arthropathy | Secondary involvement of a joint following disease in a joint of the same extremity; e.g., knee or ankle involvement in hip disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| static ataxia | Inability to preserve equilibrium while standing, due to loss of myesthesia; present during the resting state. (05 Mar 2000) |
| static bone cyst | An indentation on the lingual surface of the mandible within which a portion of the submandibular gland lies; it appears radiographically as a sharply circumscribed ovoid radiolucency between the mandibular canal and the inferior border of the posterior mandible. Synonym: Stafne bone cyst, static bone cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| static compliance | The value obtained when compliance is measured at true equilibrium, i.e., in the absence of any motion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| static friction | The force that must be overcome to initiate the motion of one body relative to another because they have been resting in contact. Compare: dynamic friction. Synonym: static friction. (05 Mar 2000) |