| BITE | Bulimic Investigatory Test |
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| PBW | posterior bite wing |
| WxB | wax bite |
| AOB | Anterior open bite |
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| BITE | Bulimia Investigatory Test Edinburgh |
| guard | 1. One who, or that which, guards from injury, danger, exposure, or attack; defense; protection. "His greatness was no guard to bar heaven's shaft." (Shak) 2. A man, or body of men, stationed to protect or control a person or position; a watch; a sentinel. "The guard which kept the door of the king's house." Kings xiv. 27. 3. One who has charge of a mail coach or a railway train; a conductor. 4. Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss; as: That part of a sword hilt which protects the hand. Ornamental lace or hem protecting the edge of a garment. A chain or cord for fastening a watch to one's person or dress. A fence or rail to prevent falling from the deck of a vessel. An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; especially, in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision. A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger. An interleaved strip at the back, as in a scrap book, to guard against its breaking when filled. 5. A posture of defense in fencing, and in bayonet and saber exercise. 6. An expression or admission intended to secure against objections or censure. "They have expressed themselves with as few guards and restrictions as I." (Atterbury) 7. Watch; heed; care; attention; as, to keep guard. 8. <zoology> The fibrous sheath which covers the phragmacone of the Belemnites. Guard is often used adjectively or in combination; as, guard boat or guardboat; guardroom or guard room; guard duty. Advanced guard, Coast guard, etc. See Advanced, Coast, etc. Grand guard, one of the posts of the second line belonging to a system of advance posts of an army. Guard boat. A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to see that their officers keep a good lookout. A boat used by harbor authorities to enforce the observance of quarantine regulations. <botany> Guard cells, to go on duty as a guard or sentinel. To run the guard, to pass the watch or sentinel without leave. Synonym: Defense, shield, protection, safeguard, convoy, escort, care, attention, watch, heed. Origin: OF. Guarde, F. Garde; of German origin; cf. OHG. Wart, marto, one who watches, mata a watching, Goth. Wardja watchman. See Guard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| guard cell | <plant biology> Plant cells occurring in pairs in the epidermis, flanking each stoma. Changes in turgor in the guard cells cause the stoma to open and close. (18 Nov 1997) |
| balanced bite | The simultaneous contacting of the upper and lower teeth on the right and left and in the anterior and posterior occlusal areas in centric and eccentric positions within the functional range; used primarily in reference to the mouth, but also arranged and observed on articulators, developed to prevent a tipping or rotating of the denture bases in relation to the supporting structures. Synonym: balanced articulation, balanced bite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| biscuit bite | A record of the relation of the mandible to the maxillae, the act of recording the relation of the mandible to the maxillae. Synonym: biscuit bite, maxillomandibular registration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bite | 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. "Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain." (Shak) 2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food. 3. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth. "Frosts do bite the meads." 4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. 5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. "The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . It turned and turned with nothing to bite." (Dickens) To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. To bite in, to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid. To bite the thumb at (any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. "Do you bite your thumb at us ?" . To bite the tongue, to keep silence. Origin: OE. Biten, AS. Bitan; akin to D. Bijten, OS. Bitan, OHG. Bizan, G. Beissen, Goth. Beitan, Icel. Bita, Sw. Bita, Dan. Bide, L. Findere to cleave, Skr. Bhid to cleave. Cf. Fissure. 1. To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite? 2. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard. 3. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. "At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and stingeth like an adder." (Prov. Xxiii. 32) 4. To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer. 5. To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites. 1. The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite. "I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite." (Walton) 2. The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects. 3. The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito. 4. A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting. 5. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another. 6. A cheat; a trick; a fraud. "The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching." (Humorist) 7. A sharper; one who cheats. 8. A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper. Origin: OE. Bite, bit, bitt, AS. Bite bite, fr. Bitan to bite, akin to Icel. Bit, OS. Biti, G. Biss. See Bite, v, and cf. Bit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bite analysis | A study of the relations of the occlusal surfaces of opposing teeth and their effect upon related structures. Synonym: bite analysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bite force | The force applied by the masticatory muscles in dental occlusion. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bite fork | <dentistry> That part of the face-bow assemblage used to attach the maxillary trial base to the face-bow proper. Synonym: bite fork. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bite gauge | <instrument> A device for measuring biting pressure. Synonym: bite gauge, occlusometer. Origin: Gnatho-+ dynamometer (05 Mar 2000) |
| bite plane | <dentistry> A removable appliance made of acrylic designed to open a deep bite. See: occlusal plane. (06 Mar 2000) |
| bite rim | Occluding surfaces built on temporary or permanent denture bases for the purpose of making maxillomandibular relation records and for arranging teeth. Synonym: bite rim, occlusal rim, record rim. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bite stick | <dentistry> A device the orthodontist uses to help put on your bands. The orthodontist puts the band in place, then asks you to bite down on the bite stick to help push the band in place. (08 Jan 1998) |
| rat-bite disease | A syndrome characterised by recurring fever, rash, and arthralgias occurring days to weeks after a rat bite. The causative agents are either streptobacillus moniliformis or spirillum minus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rat-bite fever | A syndrome characterised by recurring fever, rash, and arthralgias occurring days to weeks after a rat bite. The causative agents are either streptobacillus moniliformis or spirillum minus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rattlesnake bite | A venomous (poisonous) snake bite. All rattlesnakes are venomous and secrete poisonous venom. (12 Dec 1998) |
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