| balancer | 1. One who balances, or uses a balance. 2. <zoology> In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| balancing contact | The contact's between upper and lower dentures on the balancing or mediotrusive side for the purpose of stabilizing the dentures, the contact's between upper and lower dentures at the opposite side from the working or laterotrusive side (anteroposteriorly or laterally) for the purpose of stabilizing the dentures, the contact's between upper and lower natural or artificial teeth at the opposite side from the working or laterotrusive side. Synonym: balancing occlusal surface. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balancing occlusal surface | The contact's between upper and lower dentures on the balancing or mediotrusive side for the purpose of stabilizing the dentures, the contact's between upper and lower dentures at the opposite side from the working or laterotrusive side (anteroposteriorly or laterally) for the purpose of stabilizing the dentures, the contact's between upper and lower natural or artificial teeth at the opposite side from the working or laterotrusive side. Synonym: balancing occlusal surface. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balancing selection | <genetics> A process of natural selection where heterozygous individuals are more adaptive, and thus selected for more often, than either of the two types of homozygous individuals. (09 Oct 1997) |
| balancing side | In dentistry, the nonfunctioning side from which the mandible moves during the working bite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balancing side condyle | In dentistry, the mandibular condyle on the side away from which the mandible moves in a lateral excursion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balanic | Relating to the glans penis or glans clitoridis. Origin: G. Balanos, acorn, glans (05 Mar 2000) |
| balanic hypospadias | Ventral and proximal glanular malposition of urethral meatus in a male. Synonym: balanic hypospadias. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balanite | <paleontology> A fossil balanoid shell. Origin: L. Balanus acorn: cf. F. Balanite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Balanites aegyptiaca | A genus of trees growing in the Near East, whose berries contain an active principle that is deadly to mollusks, miracidia, cercariae, tadpoles, and fish and that is used as a prophylactic against schistosomiasis by adding it to drinking water. Origin: L. Balanos, acorn (05 Mar 2000) |
| balanitic epispadias | Excessively proximal position of meatus on dorsum of glans penis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balanitis | <urology> Inflammation of the glans penis, it is usually associated with phimosis. (18 Nov 1997) |
| balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis | Benign circumscribed balanitis characterised microscopically by subepithelial plasma cell infiltration and clinically by small erythematous papular lesions. Synonym: balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis, balanitis of Zoon, Zoon's erythroplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balanitis diabetica | Glanular inflammation in diabetics related to urinary infection or concomitant posthitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balanitis of Zoon | Benign circumscribed balanitis characterised microscopically by subepithelial plasma cell infiltration and clinically by small erythematous papular lesions. Synonym: balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis, balanitis of Zoon, Zoon's erythroplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |