| quadrantic scotoma | A scotoma involving a quarter segment of the central visual field. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| quadrants | <dentistry> The four parts of your mouth, that is the upper left, the upper right, the lower left, and the lower right. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrat | Sample units or plots that vary in size, shape, number and arrangements, depending on the nature of the vegetation, site conditions and purpose of study. (09 Oct 1997) |
| quadrate | 1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. "Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate." (Foxe) 2. Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square. " Quadrate and cubical numbers." 3. Square; even; balanced; equal; exact. " A quadrate, solid, wise man." 4. Squared; suited; correspondent. " A generical description quadrate to both. <anatomy>" Quadrate bone, a bone between the base of the lower jaw and the skull in most vertebrates below the mammals. In reptiles and birds it articulates the lower jaw with the skull; in mammals it is represented by the malleus or incus. Origin: L. Quadratus squared, p. P. Of quadrare to make four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See Quadrant, and cf. Quadrat, Quarry an arrow, Square. 1. <geometry> A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square. "At which command, the powers militant That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined." (Milton) 2. <astronomy> An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90 deg, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect. 3. <anatomy> The quadrate bone. Origin: L. Quadratum. See Quadrate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quadrate ligament | <anatomy> Fibres that pass from the distal margin of the radial notch of the ulna to the neck of the radius. Synonym: ligamentum quadratum, Denuce's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrate lobe | A lobe on the inferior surface of the liver located between the fossa for the gallbladder and the fissure for the ligamentum teres. Synonym: quadrangular lobule. Synonym: precuneus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrate lobule | The main portion of the superior part of each hemisphere of the cerebellum, corresponding to the monticulus of the vermis; it is divided into two portions, the anterior and the posterior crescentic lobules, corresponding to the culmen and the declive of the vermis. Synonym: lobulus quadrangularis, lobus quadratus, lobulus quadratus, quadrate lobe, quadrate lobule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrate muscle | <anatomy> A muscle that is more or less square in shape. Synonym: musculus quadratus, quadrate muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrate muscle of loins | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, iliac crest, iliolumbar ligament, and transverse processes of lower lumbar vertebrae; insertion, twelfth rib and transverse processes of upper lumbar vertebrae; action, abducts trunk; nerve supply, ventral primary rami of upper lumbar spinal nerves. Synonym: musculus quadratus lumborum, lumbar quadrate muscle, quadrate muscle of loins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrate muscle of sole | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, by two heads from the lateral and medial borders of the inferior surface of the calcaneus; insertion, tendons of flexor digitorum longus; action, assists long flexor; nerve supply, lateral plantar. Synonym: musculus flexor accessorius, musculus quadratus plantae, accessory flexor muscle of foot, caro quadrata sylvii, musculus pronator pedis, plantar quadrate muscle, quadrate muscle of sole. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrate muscle of thigh | <anatomy> Insertion, intertrochanteric ridge; origin, lateral border of tuberosity of ischium; action, rotates thigh laterally; nerve supply, nerve to quadratus femoris (sacral plexus). Synonym: musculus quadratus femoris, quadrate muscle of thigh. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrate muscle of upper lip | Composed of three heads usually described as three separate muscles; they are the caput angulare or levator labii superioris alaeque nasi muscle; caput infraorbitale or levator labii superioris muscle; caput zygomaticum or zygomaticus minor muscle. Synonym: quadrate muscle of upper lip. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrate part of liver | The part of the medial segment of the liver which includes the quadrate lobe. Synonym: pars quadrata hepatis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadrate pronator muscle | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, distal fourth of anterior surface of ulna; insertion, distal fourth of anterior surface of radius; action, pronates forearm; nerve supply, anterior interosseous. Synonym: musculus pronator quadratus, quadrate pronator muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quadratic | 1. Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square. 2. <chemistry> Tetragonal. 3. <mathematics> Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square. Origin: Cf. F. Quadratique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quadriplegic |
a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs
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| quadriceps boot |
a metal plate that fits over the sole of a shoe and can be fitted with weights of various sizes for therapeutic exercise of the quadriceps muscles. Called also De Lorme b.
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| quadripod cane |
one adapted for increased stability by forking to provide a four-legged rectangular base of support.
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| quadrangle |
In architecture a quadrangle, or more colloquially, quad, is a space on a college or university campus usually but not always enclosed on four sides by buildings. Quadrangles are descended from the cloister gardens of medieval monasteries, which were usually square or rectangular gardens or lawns enclosed by open arcades. ...
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| quadrilateral |
a polygon with four sides; squares and rhombi are two important types of quadrilaterals
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| quad | a quarter of the circumference of a circle |
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| quad | a quarter of the circumference of a circle |
| quad | blindness in one fourth of the visual field |
| quad | of or relating to quadraphony |
| quad | a stereophonic sound recording or reproducing system system using four separate channels |
| quad | a stereophonic sound recording or reproducing system system using four separate channels |
| quad | of or relating to quadraphony |
| quad | a square-shaped object |
| quad | a cubelike object |
| quad | having four sides and four angles |
| quad | a polynomial of the second degree |
| quad | an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square |