| BD | barbital-dependent; barbiturate dependence; base deficit; base of prism down; basophilic degeneratio... |
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| CAD | cadaver, cadaveric; cold agglutinin disease; compressed air disease; computer-assisted design; compu... |
| CAD/CAM | computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing |
| CADD | computer-aided drug design |
| HFD | hemorrhagic fever of deer; high-fiber diet; high forceps delivery; hospital field director; human fa... |
| Roger-Anderson pin fixation appliance | An appliance used in extraoral fixation of mandibular fractures and prognathic corrections in which pins placed in the bone segments are joined by metal connecting rods. See: external pin fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| craniofacial appliance | A device used to immobilise and/or reduce mandibular or midfacial fractures. See: fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hawley appliance | <dentistry> A removable wire and acrylic palatal appliance used to retain or stabilise the teeth in their new position following orthodontic tooth movement; with modifications it can be used to move teeth as an active orthodontic appliance. Synonym: Hawley appliance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| surgical appliance | A metal or plastic appliance constructed prior to surgery and used to immobilise or support mucosal, skin, bone, or bone marrow grafts during the postoperative phase. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intraoral fracture appliance | A metal or acrylic device attached to the teeth with wire or cement; used to immobilise fractures of the maxilla and mandible. (05 Mar 2000) |
| obturator appliance | An appliance used to obliterate congenital or acquired defects of the jaws and surrounding structures, usually made of acrylic or rubber. (05 Mar 2000) |
| edgewise appliance | A fixed, multibanded orthodontic appliance using an attachment bracket the slot of which receives a rectangular archwire horizontally, which gives precise control of tooth movement in all three planes of space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| extraoral fracture appliance | A device used for extraoral reduction and fixation of maxillary or mandibular fractures, in which pins, clamps, or screws interjoined with metal or acrylic connectors are used to align the fractured segments. See: external pin fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| universal appliance | A combination of the edgewise and ribbon arch appliance techniques, affording precise control of individual teeth in all planes of space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fixed appliance | <dentistry> Any orthodontic component that is cemented or bonded to the teeth. (08 Jan 1998) |
| labiolingual appliance | An orthodontic appliance that consists of a maxillary labial arch wire and a mandibular lingual arch wire. (05 Mar 2000) |
| light wire appliance | An orthodontic appliance utilizing small gauge labial wires with expansion and contraction loops formed into it and attached to bands fitted to individual teeth; sometimes called Begg light wire differential force technique. (05 Mar 2000) |
| block design test | A performance test using coloured blocks which the individual must use to match pictured designs; one of the subtests of the Wechsler intelligence scales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rational drug design | <pharmacology> Modeling the molecular structure of the target of a drug, for example, an antigen, and then designing a drug that will attack it. (17 Dec 1997) |
| research design | A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly. (12 Dec 1998) |