| tent | <surgery> A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges. A probe for searching a wound. "The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst." (Shak) Origin: F. Tente. See Tent to probe. 1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. "Within his tent, large as is a barn." (Chaucer) 2. The representation of a tent used as a bearing. Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. <zoology> Tent caterpillar, any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Synonym: lackery caterpillar, and webworm. Origin: OE. Tente, F. Tente, LL. Tenta, fr. L. Tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move, and cf. Tent a roll of lint. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| tentacle | <zoology> A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. <zoology> Tentacle sheath, a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks. Origin: NL. Tentaculum, from L. Tentare to handle, feel: cf. F. Tentacule. See Tempt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentacled | <zoology> Having tentacles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentacular | <zoology> Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles. Origin: Cf. F. Tentaculaire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentaculata | <zoology> A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentaculated | <zoology> Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentaculifera | <zoology> Same as Suctoria. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentaculiferous | <zoology> Producing or bearing tentacles. Origin: Tentaculum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentaculiform | <zoology> Shaped like a tentacle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentaculite | <paleontology> Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentaculocyst | <zoology> One of the auditory organs of certain medusae. Synonym: auditory tentacle. Origin: Tentaculum + cyst. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentaculum | Origin: NL. See Tentacle. 1. <zoology> A tentacle. 2. <anatomy> One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tentation | 1. Trial; temptation. 2. <mechanics> A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. Origin: L. Tentatio: cf. F. Tentation. See Temptation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tenth cranial nerve | <anatomy, nerve> The vagus nerve enervates the gut (gastrointestinal tract), heart and larynx. Lesions of the tenth nerve usually result in a horse voice, but may also cause difficulty in swallowing or talking. Synonym: cranial nerve X. (27 Sep 1997) |
| tenth-value layer | <radiobiology> Thickness of a specified substance which, when introduced into the path of a given beam of radiation, reduces the absorbed dose index or dose-equivalent index to one-tenth. The magnitude of the tenth-value layer may be different for absorbed dose index and dose equivalent index. (16 Dec 1997) |
| sponge tent | A sponge is impregnated with thin mucilage of acacia, wrapped with twine to the desired shape, and then dried; used to dilate sinuses, the os uteri, etc. By absorbing moisture after insertion. Synonym: sponge tent. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| oxygen tent | A transparent enclosure, suspended over the bed and enclosing the patient, used to supply a high concentration of oxygen. (05 Mar 2000) |