| assessment | Appraisal. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Assezat's triangle | A triangle formed by lines connecting the nasion with the alveolar and nasal point; used to indicate prognathism in comparative craniology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Assezat, Jules | <person> French anthropologist, 1832-1876. See: Assezat's triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assident | <medicine> Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms. Origin: L. Assidens, p. Pr. Of assidre to sit by: cf. F. Assident. See Assession. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assident sign | <clinical sign> A finding frequently but not consistently present in a disease. Synonym: assident sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assident symptom | A symptom that usually but not always accompanies a certain disease, as distinguished from a pathognomonic symptom. Synonym: assident symptom, concomitant symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assimilable | Capable of undergoing assimilation. See: assimilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assimilate | 1. To become similar or like something else. 2. To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body. "Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood." (Arbuthnot) 3. To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others. "I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England." (J. H. Newman) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assimilation | 1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. "To aspire to an assimilation with God." (Dr. H. More) "The assimilation of gases and vapors." (Sir J. Herschel) 2. <physiology> The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. "Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation." (Sir T. Browne) The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs. Origin: L. Assimilatio: cf. F. Assimilation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assimilation pelvis | A deformity in which the transverse processes of the last lumbar vertebra are fused with the sacrum, or the last sacral with the first coccygeal body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assimulate | 1. To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. 2. To assimilate. Origin: L. Assimulatus, p. P. Of assimulare, equiv. To assimilare. See Assimilate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assimulation | 1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. "To aspire to an assimilation with God." (Dr. H. More) "The assimilation of gases and vapors." (Sir J. Herschel) 2. <physiology> The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. "Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation." (Sir T. Browne) The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs. Origin: L. Assimilatio: cf. F. Assimilation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assist | To give support or aid, to be present as a spectator. (18 Nov 1997) |
| assist-control ventilation | Artificial respiration in which inspiration is produced automatically after a set interval if the person has not already begun to inspire. Compare: assisted ventilation, controlled ventilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assisted cephalic delivery | Extraction of a foetus that presents by the head. (05 Mar 2000) |