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| town | 1. Formerly: An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. The whole of the land which constituted the domain. A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. 2. Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. 3. Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. "God made the country, and man made the town." (Cowper) 4. The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways. 5. A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country. 6. The court end of London;-commonly with the. 7. The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country. "Always hankering after the diversions of the town." (Addison) "Stunned with his giddy larum half the town." (Pope) The same form of expressions is used in regard to other populous towns. 8. A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. Town is often used adjectively or in combination with other words; as, town clerk, or town-clerk; town-crier, or town crier; townhall, town-hall, or town hall; townhouse, town house, or town-house. Synonym: Village, hamlet. See Village. Town clerk, an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See Clerk. <botany> Town cress, the garden cress, or peppergrass. Town house. A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country. See Townhouse. Town meeting, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness. Town talk, the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation. Origin: OE. Toun, tun, AS. Tun inclosure, fence, village, town; akin to D. Tuin a garden, G. Zaun a hadge, fence, OHG. Zun, Icel. Tun an inclosure, homestead, house, Ir. & Gael. Dun a fortress, W. Din. Cf. Down, Dune, tine to inclose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Towne projection | Reverse tilted AP radiographic projection devised to permit demonstration of the entire occipital bone, foramen magnum, and dorsum sellae, as well as the petrous ridges. Synonym: half axial view, half-axial projection, Towne view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Towne projection radiograph | See: Towne projection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Towne view | Reverse tilted AP radiographic projection devised to permit demonstration of the entire occipital bone, foramen magnum, and dorsum sellae, as well as the petrous ridges. Synonym: half axial view, half-axial projection, Towne view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Towne, E | <person> U.S. Otolaryngologist, 1883-1957. See: Towne projection, Towne projection radiograph, Towne view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| township | 1. The district or territory of a town. In the United States, many of the States are divided into townships of five, six, seven, or perhaps ten miles square, and the inhabitants of such townships are invested with certain powers for regulating their own affairs, such as repairing roads and providing for the poor. The township is subordinate to the county. 2. In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections. 3. In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Towne's p. |
a radiographic projection of the head in which the central ray enters obliquely through the frontal bone, yielding a view of facial structures and the occipital bone; it is an anteroposterior half-axial projection.
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| Towne's projection |
see under projection.
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| Townes syndrome |
see under syndrome.
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| Townes' s. |
an autosomal dominant syndrome of auricular anomalies, anal defects, limb and digit—particularly thumb—anomalies, and renal deficiencies; it occasionally includes cardiac disease, deafness, or cystic ovary.
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| Townsend i. |
avalanche i.
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| town | the people living in a municipality smaller than a city |
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| town | an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city |
| town | an administrative division of a county |
| town | the official who keeps a town's records |
| town | (formerly) an official who made public announcements |
| town | (Brit) coal gas manufactured for domestic and industrial use |
| town | a government building that houses administrative offices of a town government |
| town | a house that is one of a row of identical houses situated side by side and sharing common walls |
| town | government of a town by an assembly of the qualified voters |
| town | a meeting of the inhabitants of a town |
| town | determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community |
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