| tilt | 1. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances. "He tilts With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast." (Shak) "Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast." (Shak) "But in this tournament can no man tilt." (Tennyson) "The fleet, swift tilting, o'er the urges flew." (Pope) 2. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. "The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back." (Grew) 1. A covering overhead; especially, a tent. 2. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. 3. A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat. Tilt boat, a round-headed roof, like the canopy of a wagon. Origin: OE. Telt (perhaps from the Danish), teld, AS. Teld, geteld; akin to OD. Telde, G. Zelt, Icel. Tjald, Sw. Talt, tjall, Dan. Telt, and ASThe beteldan to cover. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| tilt table | A table with a top capable of being rotated on its transverse axis so that a patient lying upon it can be brought into the erect position as desired; used in experimental investigation and in physical therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tilt test | Any measurement of response during tilting of the body usually head up but also head down. The test may be monitored by catheterization, echocardiography, electrophysiologic measurements, electrocardiography, or mechanocardiography. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tilt-table test | Tilt tables are used to maintain a head-down body posture during testing of cardiac response to identify patients with a vasodepressive or cardioinhibitory response as a cause of syncope. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tilt-up | <zoology> Same as Tip-up. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tilting disc valve | A variety of prosthetic cardiac valve composed of one or two discs within a retaining device. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tilting disc valve prosthesis | A low profile artificial heart valve with excellent flow characteristics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| head-down tilt | Posture while lying with the head lower than the rest of the body. Extended time in this position is associated with temporary physiologic disturbances. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| head-tilt | An abnormal position of the head adopted to prevent double vision resulting from underaction of the vertical ocular muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |