| hospital record | The medical record generated during a period of hospitalization, usually including written accounts of consultants' opinions, physician observations, as well as nurses' observations and treatments. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| interocclusal record | A record of the positional relationship of the teeth or jaws to each other, recorded by placing a plastic material which hardens (such as plaster of Paris, wax, etc.) between the occlusal surfaces of the rims or teeth; the hardened material serves as the record; it may be registered in centric or eccentric positions, as (05 Mar 2000) |
| occluding centric relation record | A registration of centric relation made at the established occlusal vertical dimension. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal jaw relation record | A record of the relationship of the mandible to the maxillae made at the vertical relation of occlusion and at the centric position. (05 Mar 2000) |
| three-dimensional record | A maxillomandibular record made at the occluding relation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jaw relation record | A registration of any positional relationship of the mandible in reference to the maxillae. These records may be any of the many vertical, horizontal, or orientation relations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| face-bow record | <dentistry> A registration utilizing a face-bow of the position of the hinge axis and/or the condyles; the face-bow record is used to orient the maxillary cast to the opening and closing axis of the articulator. (05 Mar 2000) |
| functional chew-in record | A record of the natural chewing movements of the mandible made on an occlusion rim by teeth or scribing studs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| polar | Describes a feature or phenomenon occuring at the end (pole) of an object (such as a planet) or organism (such as an amoeba). <chemistry> Describes a molecular that has a permanent electric dipole. See: polar group. Compare: nonpolar, nonpolar groups. (12 Mar 1998) |
| polar amino acid | An alpha-amino acid in which the functional group attached to the alpha-carbon (i.e., R in RCH(NH2)COOH) has hydrophilic properties; e.g., serine, cysteine, homocysteine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| polar anaemia | A form of anaemia sometimes observed in natives of temperate climates when they migrate to the Arctic or Antarctic regions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| polar body | <cell biology> In animals each meiotic division of the oocyte leads to the formation of one large cell (the egg) and a small polar body as the other cell. Polar body formation is a consequence of the very eccentric position of the nucleus and the spindle. (18 Nov 1997) |
| polar cataract | A capsular cataract limited to an area of the anterior or posterior pole of the lens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| polar cell | <cell biology> In animals each meiotic division of the oocyte leads to the formation of one large cell (the egg) and a small polar body as the other cell. Polar body formation is a consequence of the very eccentric position of the nucleus and the spindle. (18 Nov 1997) |
| polar compound | A compound in which the electric charge is not symmetrically distributed, so that there is a separation of charge or partial charge and formation of definite positive and negative poles; e.g., H2O. See also inorganic compound. (05 Mar 2000) |