| abrasive strip | A ribbon-like piece of linen on one side of which is bonded abrasive particles; used in dentistry for contouring and polishing proximal surfaces of restorations. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| amalgam strip | A linen strip without abrasive used to smooth proximal contours of newly placed amalgam restorations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| celluloid strip | A clear plastic strip used as a matrix when inserting a silicate cement or acrylic resin cement in proximal cavity preparations of anterior teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| glucose oxidase paper strip test | <chemical pathology> A qualitative test for glucose in the urine, in which glucose is oxidised to gluconic acid by glucose oxidase; a specific test, unless ascorbic acid is present. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strip | 1. To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark. "And strippen her out of her rude array." (Chaucer) "They stripped Joseph out of his coat." (Gen. Xxxvii. 23) "Opinions which . . . No clergyman could have avowed without imminent risk of being stripped of his gown." (Macaulay) 2. To divest of clothing; to uncover. "Before the folk herself strippeth she." (Chaucer) "Strip your sword stark naked." (Shak) 3. To dismantle; as, to strip a ship of rigging, spars, etc. 4. <agriculture> To pare off the surface of, as land, in strips. 5. To deprive of all milk; to milk dry; to draw the last milk from; hence, to milk with a peculiar movement of the hand on the teats at the last of a milking; as, to strip a cow. 6. To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip. "When first they stripped the Malean promontory." (Chapman) "Before he reached it he was out of breath, And then the other stripped him." (Beau. & Fl) 7. To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses. "To strip bad habits from a corrupted heart, is stripping off the skin." (Gilpin) 8. <machinery> To tear off (the thread) from a bolt or nut; as, the thread is stripped. To tear off the thread from (a bolt or nut); as, the bolt is stripped. 9. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action. 10. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged. 11. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands"; to remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves). Origin: OE. Stripen, strepen, AS. Strpan in bestrpan to plunder; akin to D. Stroopen, MHG. Stroufen, G. Streifen. 1. A narrow piece, or one comparatively long; as, a strip of cloth; a strip of land. 2. <chemical> A trough for washing ore. 3. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strip-leaf | Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lightning strip | A strip of metal with abrasive on one side, used to open rough or improper contacts of proximal restorations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acoustic area | The floor of the lateral recess of the fourth ventricle, extending medially to the limiting sulcus and overlying the cochlear and vestibular nuclei of the rhombencephalon. Synonym: area acustica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adaptive management area | Landscape units designated for development and testing of technical and social approaches to achieving desired ecological, economic, and other social objectives. (05 Dec 1998) |
| air quality maintenance area | Specific populated area where air quality is a problem for one or more pollutants (Portland-Vancouver, Salem, Eugene-Springfield, Medford-Ashland). (05 Dec 1998) |
| anterior intercondylar area of tibia | The broad depressed area between the tibial condyles anteriorly to which attach the anterior ends of the menisci and the anterior cruciate ligament. Synonym: area intercondylaris anterior tibiae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aortic area | The region of the chest wall over the second right costal cartilage, where sounds produced at the aortic orifice are often best heard. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apical area | The area about the root end of a tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| area | Origin: L. Area a broad piece of level gro. Cf. Are. 1. Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building. "The Alban lake . . . Looks like the area of some vast amphitheater." (Addison) 2. The inclosed space on which a building stands. 3. The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building. 4. An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas. 5. <geometry> The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle. 6. <biology> A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area. 7. Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought. "The largest area of human history and man's common nature." (F. Harrison) Dry area. See Dry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| area acustica | The floor of the lateral recess of the fourth ventricle, extending medially to the limiting sulcus and overlying the cochlear and vestibular nuclei of the rhombencephalon. Synonym: area acustica. (05 Mar 2000) |