| OHI | Occupational Health Institute; operative hypertension indicator; oral hygiene index; Oral Hygiene In... |
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| BIN, bin, b.i.n. | Bis In Nocte; Twice A Night; 하루밤에 두번 |
| MN | 1) Membranous Nephropathy 2) Mid-Night; 자정 |
| q.n. | quaque nox; Every Night; 매일 밤 |
| CFNS | chills, fever, night sweats; craniofrontonasal syndrome |
| rest | 1. To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labour or exertion. "God . . . Rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made." (Gen. Ii. 2) "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest." (Ex. Xxiii. 12) 2. To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still. "There rest, if any rest can harbor there." (Milton) 3. To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch. 4. To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal. 5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead. "Fancy . . . Then retries Into her private cell when Nature rests." (Milton) 6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise. "On him I rested, after long debate, And not without considering, fixed fate." (Dryden) 7. To be satisfied; to acquiesce. "To rest in Heaven's determination." (Addison) To rest with, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to decide. Origin: AS. Restan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| rest area | The portion of a tooth structure or of a restoration in a tooth that is prepared to receive the positive seating of the metallic occlusal, incisal, lingual, or cingulum rest of a removable prosthesis. Synonym: rest seat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest bite | A misnomer for physiologic rest position of the mandible. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest body | A small mass of cytoplasm remaining after the nucleus and cytoplasm of the schizont of certain sporozoan protozoa have divided into asexual spores or merozoites. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest-harrow | <botany> A European leguminous plant (Ononis arvensis) with long, tough roots. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rest jaw relation | The postural relation of the mandible to the maxillae when the patient is resting comfortably in the upright position and the condyles are in a neutral unstrained position in the glenoid fossa. Synonym: rest jaw relation, unstrained jaw relation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest nitrogen | The nitrogen content of other than protein bodies; e.g., about one-half the nonprotein nitrogen in the blood is contained in urea. Synonym: rest nitrogen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest pain | Pain occurring usually in the extremities during rest in the sitting or lying position. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest position | The usual position of the mandible when the patient is resting comfortably in the upright position and the condyles are in a neutral unstrained position in the glenoid fossae. See: rest relation. Synonym: postural position, postural resting position, rest position. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest relation | The postural relation of the mandible to the maxillae when the patient is resting comfortably in the upright position and the condyles are in a neutral unstrained position in the glenoid fossa. Synonym: rest jaw relation, unstrained jaw relation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest seat | The portion of a tooth structure or of a restoration in a tooth that is prepared to receive the positive seating of the metallic occlusal, incisal, lingual, or cingulum rest of a removable prosthesis. Synonym: rest seat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest's of Serres | Remnants of dental lamina epithelium entrapped within the gingiva. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rest vertical dimension | The vertical dimension of the face with the jaws in rest relation; decrease in rest vertical dimension may or may not accompany a decrease in occlusal vertical dimension; it may occur without a decrease in occlusal vertical dimension in patients with a preponderant activity of the jaw-closing musculature, as in patients with muscular hypertenseness or in chronic gum chewers; increase in rest vertical dimension may or may not accompany an increase in occlusal vertical dimension; it sometimes occurs after the removal of remaining occlusal contacts, perhaps as a result of the removal of noxious reflex stimuli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mesonephric rest | Remnants of the wolffian duct in the female genital tract that give rise to cysts; e.g., Gartner's cyst. Synonym: mesonephric rest. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cingulum rest | The rigid part of a removable partial denture supported by a prepared rest area on the cingulum of an anterior tooth or crown. (05 Mar 2000) |