| margin | 1. A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake. 2. Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing. 3. The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article. 4. Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty. 5. Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. Margin draft, that part of a course, as of slates or shingles, which is not covered by the course immediately above it. See Gauge. Synonym: Border, brink, verge, brim, rim. Origin: OE. Margine, margent, L. Margo, ginis. Cf. March a border, Marge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| margin of acetabulum | The rim of bone around the acetabulum to which is attached the labrum acetabulare. Synonym: limbus acetabuli, margo acetabularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| margin of fossa ovalis | A muscular ring surrounding the fossa ovalis in the wall of the right atrium of the heart. Synonym: annulus ovalis, margin of fossa ovalis, Vieussens' annulus, Vieussens' isthmus, Vieussens' limbus, Vieussens' ring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| margin of orbit | The mostly sharp edge of the orbital opening which is the peripheral border of the base of the pyramid-shaped orbit. The superior half of the orbital rim is the supraorbital margin; the inferior half is the infraorbital margin. The frontal, maxillary, and zygomatic bones contribute to the orbital rim, which is generally strong to protect the orbital contents. Weak, potential fracture sites of the rim coincide with the sutures between the participating bones. Synonym: margin of orbit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| margin of safety | The margin between the minimal therapeutic dose and the minimal toxic dose of a drug. (05 Mar 2000) |
| margin of the tongue | The lateral border that separates the dorsum from the inferior surface of the tongue on each side, the two borders meeting anteriorly at the apex. Synonym: margo linguae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| marginal | Occurring at or very close to the margin. (09 Oct 1997) |
| marginal adaptation | <dentistry> The degree of proximity and interlocking of filling material to the wall of the cavity of a tooth. The term has come to be used synonymously with adaptation at the cavosurface margin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| marginal artery of colon | Artery formed by anastomoses between the right and left colic artery's; it passes downward from the left colic flexure to the aboral end of the pelvic colon. Synonym: artery of Drummond, Riolan's arc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| marginal artery of drummond | <radiology> Formed by, right and left br. Of middle colic a., and left and right colic aa., runs along mesenteric border of colon, supplies vasa recta (12 Dec 1998) |
| marginal band | A bundle of equatorially located microtubules that stabilise the biconvex shape of platelets and avian erythrocytes. They are unusual in that they do not derive from the centrosomal microtubule organising centre. (18 Nov 1997) |
| marginal blepharitis | Inflammation of the margins of the eyelids. Synonym: ciliary blepharitis, marginal blepharitis. Meibomian blepharitis, inflammation of the eyelid margin and the meibomian glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| marginal corneal degeneration | Bilateral opacification and vascularization of the periphery of the cornea, progressing to formation of a gutter and ectasia. Synonym: ectatic marginal degeneration of cornea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| marginal crest | The rounded borders which form the mesial and distal margins of the occlusal surface of a tooth. Synonym: crista marginalis, marginal ridge. (05 Mar 2000) |
| marginal fasciculus | A longitudinal bundle of thin, unmyelinated and poorly myelinated fibres capping the apex of the posterior horn of the spinal gray matter, composed of posterior root fibres and short association fibres that interconnect neighboring segments of the posterior horn. Synonym: fasciculus dorsolateralis, tractus dorsolateralis, dorsolateral tract, fasciculus marginalis, Lissauer's bundle, Lissauer's column, Lissauer's fasciculus, Lissauer's marginal zone, Lissauer's tract, marginal fasciculus, Spitzka's marginal tract, Spitzka's marginal zone, Waldeyer's tract, Waldeyer's zonal layer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| margin of exposure |
The ratio of the no-observed adverse-effect-level to the estimated exposure dose.
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| margo |
The pit membrane around the torus in bordered pits of conifers.
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| margarine |
High butter prices in France led Napoleon III to hold a competition for a cheaper and less perishable substitute to alleviate the fat shortages among the Working Class. The competition was won by Mege Mouries in 1869 with a substitute of skim milk (aqueous phase) in beef fat (oil phase). The product was called margarine because of its pearly lustre from the fat crystals (margarites the Greek for pearl). Until 1887 in England it was called butterine. Now made from various vegetable oils. ...
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| Margaret Higgins |
(1883-1966) US nurse in New York slums, where she was appalled at deaths of poor women from self-induced abortions. She coined the term birth control and founded National Birth Control League in 1914. When she opened a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn in 1916, she was arrested for creating a public nuisance. Her struggle with the law dramatized her cause and won doctors the right to dispense birth-control information to their patients. ...
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| margination |
A phenomenon that occurs during the relatively early phases of inflammation in which white blood cells tend to occupy the periphery of the blood vessels and adhere to endothelial cells that line the vessels.
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| Marg | a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter |
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| Marg | a cocktail made of tequila and triple sec with lime and lemon juice |
| Marg | red-mouthed grunt found from Florida to Brazil |
| Marg | small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil |
| Marg | small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil |
| Marg | a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter |
| Marg | a strip near the boundary of an object |
| Marg | a permissible difference |
| Marg | the blank space that surrounds the text on a page |
| Marg | (corporate finance) net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold |
| Marg | the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities |
| Marg | the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary |