| ABP | actin-binding protein; ambulatory blood pressure; American Board of Pedodontics; American Board of P... |
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| CE angle | Center-Edge angle |
| CP angle | Cerebello-Pontine angle |
| CPA | Canadian Physiotherapy Association; Canadian Psychiatric Association; carboxypeptidase A; cardiopulm... |
| IA | ibotenic acid; immune adherence; immunoadsorbent; immunobiologic activity; impedance angle; indolami... |
| ABIM | American Board of Internal Medicine |
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| ABR | American Board of Radiology |
| ABSITE | American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination |
| ENB | English National Board |
| IRB | Institutional Review Board |
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| board | 1. A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, used for building, etc. When sawed thick, as over one and a half or two inches, it is usually called a plank. 2. A table to put food upon. The term board answers to the modern table, but it was often movable, and placed on trestles. "Fruit of all kinds . . . She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand." (Milton) 3. Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board. 4. A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorised assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. "Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board." (Clarendon) "We may judge from their letters to the board." (Porteus) 5. A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board. 6. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards. 7. The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession. 8. [In this use originally perh. A different word meaning border, margin; cf. D. Boord, G. Bord, shipboard, and G. Borte trimming; also F. Bord (fr. G) the side of a ship. Cf. Border] The border or side of anything. The side of a ship. "Now board to board the rival vessels row." . See On board, below. The stretch which a ship makes in one tack. Board is much used adjectively or as the last part of a compound; as, fir board, clapboard, floor board, shipboard, sideboard, ironing board, chessboard, cardboard, pasteboard, seaboard; board measure. The American Board, a shortened form of "The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions" (the foreign missionary society of the American Congregational churches). Bed and board. See Bed. <mathematics> Board and board, to sail in a straight line when close-hauled; to lose little to leeward. To make short boards, to tack frequently. On board. On shipboard; in a ship or a boat; on board of; as, I came on board early; to be on board ship. In or into a railway car or train. Returning board, a board empowered to canvass and make an official statement of the votes cast at an election. Origin: OE. Bord, AS. Bord board, shipboard; akin to bred plank, Icel. Bor board, side of a ship, Goth. Ftu-baurd]/> Footstool, D. Bord board, G. Brett, bort. See def. 8. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| board feet | (BF) Unit of measure for logs and lumber. One board foot is equivalent to a piece of wood 1 inch thick, 12 inches wide, and 12 inches long. (05 Dec 1998) |
| governing board | The group in which legal authority is vested for the control of health-related institutions and organizations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sound-board | A sounding-board. "To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes." (Milton) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| land use board of appeals | (LUBA) A seven-member board appointed to adjudicate land use disputes in Oregon. (05 Dec 1998) |
| acromial angle | The prominent angle at the junction of the posterior and lateral borders of the acromion. Synonym: angulus acromialis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute angle | Any angle less than 90 |
| acute angle closure glaucoma | <ophthalmology> An increase in pressure within the anterior chamber of the eye. There are two forms of glaucoma: acute angle closure and open angle glaucoma. (27 Sep 1997) |
| adjacent angle | An angle with a line in common with another angle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alpha angle | The angle between the visual and optic axes as they cross at the nodal point of the eye, the angle between the visual line and the major axis of the corneal ellipse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alveolar angle | The angle between the horizontal plane and a line connecting the base of the nasal spine and the middle point of the projection of the alveolus of the maxilla. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle | 1. To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line. 2. <geometry> The figure made by two lines which meet. The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle. 3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. "Though but an angle reached him of the stone." (Dryden) Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines. External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure. Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90 deg . Rectilineal or Right-lined angle, one formed by two right lines. Right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90 deg (measured by a quarter circle). Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point. Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere. Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. 4. <astronomy> A name given to four of the twelve astrological houses. Origin: F. Angle, L. Angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. Bent, crooked, angular, a bend or hollow, AS. Angel hook, fish-hook, G. Angel, and F. Anchor. (16 Mar 1998) |
| angle closure glaucoma | <ophthalmology> Primary glaucoma in which contact of the iris with the peripheral cornea excludes aqueous humor from the trabecular drainage meshwork causing a sudden blockage of the normal fluid circulation within the eyeball resulting in increased intraocular pressure. Increased pressure within the eyeball can cause damage to the optic nerve and blindness. Symptoms include severe eye or facial pain, nausea, vomiting, decreased vision, blurred vision and seeing halos around objects. The eye appears red with a steamy cornea and a fixed (nonreactive) dilated pupil. Treatment is emergent with medications to lower the pressure within the eye. Synonym: acute glaucoma, closed-angle glaucoma, narrow-angle glaucoma. (14 Aug 2000) |
| Angle, Edward | <person> U.S. Orthodontist, 1855-1930. See: Angle's classification of malocclusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle of anomaly | <ophthalmology> An obsolete term for the degree of deviation from parallelism of the visual axes of the eyes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angle board |
in dental radiology, a device used to facilitate the establishment of reproducible angular relationships between a patient's head and the plane of an x-ray film.
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