| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
| head-tilt | An abnormal position of the head adopted to prevent double vision resulting from underaction of the vertical ocular muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |
| 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-up | <zoology> Same as Tip-up. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Aub-DuBois table | Table of basal metabolic rates in calories per square meter of body surface per hour or day for different ages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gaffky table | A numerical rating for the classification of tuberculosis according to the number of tubercle bacilli in the sputum, ranging from 1 (one to four organisms in the whole preparation) to 9 (an average of 100 per field). Synonym: Gaffky scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vitreous table | The inner table of one of the cranial bones; it is more compact and harder than the outer table. Synonym: lamina internal ossium cranii. (05 Mar 2000) |
| water table | <ecology> The zone of saturation at the highest average depth during the wettest season, it is at least six inches thick and persists in the soil for more than a few weeks. (09 Oct 1997) |
| contingency table | A tabular cross-classification of data such that subcategories of one characteristic are indicated in rows (horizontally) and subcategories of another are indicated in columns (vertically). (05 Mar 2000) |
| cross-table lateral projection | <radiology> Lateral projection radiography of a supine subject using a horizontal X-ray beam. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inner table of skull | The inner compact layer of the cranial bones. Synonym: lamina interna cranii. (05 Mar 2000) |
| occlusal table | The occlusal or grinding surfaces of the bicuspid and molar teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| operating table | A table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation. (05 Mar 2000) |