| occlusal table | The occlusal or grinding surfaces of the bicuspid and molar teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| operating table | A table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| table | 1. A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab. "A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble." (Sandys) 2. A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet; pl. A memorandum book. "The names . . . Written on his tables." "And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest." (Ex. Xxxiv. 1) "And stand there with your tables to glean The golden sentences." (Beau. & Fl) 3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced. "Painted in a table plain." "The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable table." (Evelyn) "St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant." (Addison) 4. Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule. Specifically: A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents. <chemistry> A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc. <machinery> Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc. The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. "Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable." (B. Jonson) 5. An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working. "We may again Give to our tables meat." (Shak) "The nymph the table spread." (Pope) 6. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table. 7. The company assembled round a table. "I drink the general joy of the whole table." (Shak) 8. <anatomy> One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium. 9. A stringcourse which includes an offset; especially, a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table. 10. The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played. One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table. The games of backgammon and of draughts. "This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice." (Shak) 11. A circular plate of crown glass. "A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds." (Ure) 12. The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles. 13. A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; called also perspective plane. 14. <machinery> The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened. Bench table, Card table, Communion table, Lord's table, etc. See Bench, Card, etc. Raised table, a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions. They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps, of laws and usages under their ancient kings. Origin: F, fr. L. Tabula a board, tablet, a painting. Cf. Tabular, Taffrail, Tavern. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| table salt | <chemical> Table salt, NaCL. (09 Oct 1997) |
| tilt table | A table with a top capable of being rotated on its transverse axis so that a patient lying upon it can be brought into the erect position as desired; used in experimental investigation and in physical therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tilt-table test | Tilt tables are used to maintain a head-down body posture during testing of cardiac response to identify patients with a vasodepressive or cardioinhibitory response as a cause of syncope. (12 Dec 1998) |
| examining table | A table on which the patient lies during a medical examination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| life table | A representation of the probable years of survivorship of a defined population of subjects; since survivorship is changed by new methods of prevention or treatment, a diachronic study is commonly used because the main interest lies in the composite structure of the current population. (In the summarizing technique used to describe the pattern of mortality and survival in a population, survivors to age x are denoted by the symbol lx and the expectation of life at age x is denoted by the symbol x. (05 Mar 2000) |