| MAR | main admissions room; marasmus; marrow; maximal aggregation ratio; medication administration record;... |
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| MAS | magic angle spinning; Manifest Anxiety Scale; maximum average score; McCune-Albright syndrome; mecon... |
| PASA | para-aminosalicylic acid; primary acquired sideroblastic anemia; proximal articular set angle |
| RA | radioactive; ragocyte; ragweed antigen; rapidly adapting [receptors]; reactive arthritis; reciprocal... |
| SMART | simultaneous multiple angle reconstruction technique |
| carrying angle | The angle made by the axes of the arm and the forearm, with the elbow in full extension. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| mastoid angle of parietal bone | The posteroinferior point of the parietal bone. Synonym: angulus mastoideus ossis parietalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| maxillary angle | The angle formed by a line drawn from the ophryon and another from the point of the mandible and meeting at the contact between the upper and lower incisor teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| refracting angle of a prism | The angle between two plane surfaces of a prism. Synonym: refracting angle of a prism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| refraction, angle of | <microscopy> The acute angle between the normal to a refracting surface at the point of incidence, and the refracted ray. (05 Aug 1998) |
| cavity line angle | In dentistry, the angle formed by two walls of a cavity, e.g., a tooth cavity, meeting along a line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Virchow-Holder angle | An angle formed by the meeting of a line drawn from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the base of the anterior nasal spine with a line drawn from this last point to the centre of the external auditory meatus. Synonym: Virchow-Holder angle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Virchow's angle | An angle formed by the meeting of a line drawn from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the base of the anterior nasal spine with a line drawn from this last point to the centre of the external auditory meatus. Synonym: Virchow-Holder angle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cavosurface angle | The angle formed by the junction of a cavity wall and the surface of the tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| medial angle of eye | The angle formed by the union of the upper and lower eyelids medially. Synonym: angulus oculi medialis, angulus oculi nasalis, internal canthus, medial canthus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| visual angle | The angle formed at the retina by the meeting of lines drawn from the periphery of the object seen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pectinate ligaments of iridocorneal angle | The network of fibres (pectinate ligaments) at the iridocorneal angle between the anterior chamber of the eye and the venous sinus of the sclera; it contains spaces between the fibres that are involved in drainage of the aqueous humor, and is composed of two portions: the corneoscleral part, the part attached to the sclera, and the uveal part, the part attached to the iris. Synonym: reticulum trabeculare sclerae, Gerlach's valvula, Hueck's ligament, ligamentum annulare bulbi, pectinate ligaments of iridocorneal angle, pillar of iris, trabecular meshwork, trabecular network, trabecular zone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Vogt's angle | A craniometric angle formed by the nasobasilar and alveolonasal lines. Origin: K. Vogt (05 Mar 2000) |
| cephalic angle | One of several angle's formed by the intersection of two lines passing through certain points of the face or cranium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cephalomedullary angle | The angle made by the junction of the cerebrum and the brain stem. (05 Mar 2000) |