| BULL | buccal or upper lingual of lower |
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| TOF | 1) Tetralogy Of Fallot ? CIx of Corrective Op ... |
| ETL | echo train length; expiratory threshold load |
| TOF | tetralogy of Fallot; time-of-flight; train of four [monitor]; tracheo[o]esophageal fistula |
| ETL | echo train length |
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| TOF | Train of Four |
| train | 1. To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company. 2. To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc, for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race. 1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." 2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. "With cunning trains him to entrap un wares." (Spenser) 3. That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically: That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer. The after part of a gun carriage; the trail. The tail of a bird. "The train steers their flights, and turns their bodies, like the rudder of ship." 4. A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite. "The king's daughter with a lovely train." (Addison) "My train are men of choice and rarest parts." (Shak) 5. A consecution or succession of connected things; a series. "A train of happy sentiments." "The train of ills our love would draw behind it." (Addison) "Rivers now Stream and perpetual draw their humid train." (Milton) "Other truths require a train of ideas placed in order." (Locke) 6. Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement. "If things were once in this train, . . . Our duty would take root in our nature." (Swift) 7. The number of beats of a watch in any certain time. 8. A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like. 9. A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad. 10. A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like. 11. A roll train; as, a 12-inch train. Roll train, or Train of rolls, a tackle for running guns in and out. Train, Cars. Train is the word universally used in England with reference to railroad traveling; as, I came in the morning train. In the United States, the phrase the cars has been extensively introduced in the room of train; as, the cars are late; I came in the cars. The English expression is obviously more appropriate, and is prevailing more and more among Americans, to the exclusion of the cars. Origin: F. Train, OF. Train, trahin; cf. (for some of the senses) F. Traine. See Train. 1. To draw along; to trail; to drag. "In hollow cube Training his devilish enginery." (Milton) 2. To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure. "If but a dozen French Were there in arms, they would be as a call To train ten thousand English to their side." (Shak) "O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note." (Shak) "This feast, I'll gage my life, Is but a plot to train you to your ruin." (Ford) 3. To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms. "Our trained bands, which are the trustiest and most proper strength of a free nation." (Milton) "The warrior horse here bred he's taught to train." (Dryden) 4. To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen. 5. <botany> To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees. "He trained the young branches to the right hand or to the left." (Jeffrey) 6. <chemical> To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head. To train a gun, to point it at some object either forward or else abaft the beam, that is, not directly on the side. To train, or To train up, to educate; to teach; to form by instruction or practice; to bring up. "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it." (Prov. Xxii. 6) "The first Christians were, by great hardships, trained up for glory." (Tillotson) Origin: OF. Trahiner, trainer,F. Trainer, LL. Trahinare, trainare, fr. L. Trahere to draw. See Trail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| train-of-four stimulus | A method for measuring magnitude and type of neuromuscular blockade, based upon the ratio of the amplitude of the fourth evoked mechanical response to the first one, when four supramaximal 2-Hz electrical currents are applied for 2 seconds to a peripheral motor nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aq bull | <abbreviation> L. Aqua bulliens, boiling water. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bull | Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce. Bull bat, the pine snake of the United States. Bull stag, a castrated bull. See Stag. Bull wheel, a wheel, or drum, on which a rope is wound for lifting heavy articles, as logs, the tools in well boring, etc. 1. A seal. See Bulla. 2. A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. E, "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief. "A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses." (Atterbury) 3. A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility. "And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic." (Milton) The Golden Bull, an edict or imperial constitution made by the emperor Charles IV. (1356), containing what became the fundamental law of the German empire; so called from its golden seal. Synonym: See Blunder. Origin: OE. Bulle, fr. L. Bulla bubble, stud, knob, LL, a seal or stamp: cf. F. Bulle. Cf. Bull a writing, Bowl a ball, Boil. 1. <zoology> The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale. The wild bull of the Old Testament is thought to be the oryx, a large species of antelope. 2. One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action. 3. <astronomy> Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac. A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades. "At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him." (Thomson) 4. One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear. Bull baiting, the practice of baiting bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them. John Bull, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also, an Englishman. "Good-looking young John Bull." . To take the bull by the horns, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it. Origin: OE. Bule, bul, bole; akin to D. Bul, G. Bulle, Icel. Boli, Lith. Bullus, Lett. Bollis, Russ. Vol'; prob. Fr. The root of AS. Bellan, E. Bellow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bull brier | <botany> A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from new Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer. Synonym: bamboo brier and China brier. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bull neck | A heavy thick neck caused by hypertrophied muscles or enlarged cervical lymph nodes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bull's-eye | 1. A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging. 2. A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm. 3. A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc, to let in light. 4. A circular or oval opening for air or light. 5. A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself. 6. <astronomy> Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the Bull. 7. The center of a target. 8. A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown. 9. A small and thick old-fashioned watch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bull's-eye maculopathy | An ocular condition in which oedema or degeneration of the sensory retina at the posterior pole of the eye causes alternating areas of light and dark, as in a target; seen in toxic, inflammatory, and hereditary conditions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bull terrier | <zoology> A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bull trout | <zoology> In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; called also sea trout. Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout. The huso or salmon of the Danube. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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