| ABP | actin-binding protein; ambulatory blood pressure; American Board of Pedodontics; American Board of P... |
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| TEF | Tracheo-Esophageal Fistula ? Tx 1. Infant Warmer  ... |
| ABA | abscissic acid; allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; American Board of Anesthesiologists; antiba... |
| ABAT | American Board of Applied Toxicology |
| ABB | Albright-Butler-Bloomberg [syndrome]; American Board of Bioanalysis |
| 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) |
| C sliding osteotomy | An extraoral osteotomy in the shape of a "C" performed bilaterally in the mandibular rami for the correction of retrognathia and/or apertognathia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding | 1. That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly. 2. Slippery; elusory. "That sliding science hath me made so bare." (Chaucer) Sliding friction, the timber guides used in launching a vessel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sliding filament hypothesis | The theory that the contracting muscle shortens because two sets of filaments slide past each other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding filament model | <cell biology> Generally accepted model for the way in which contraction occurs in the sarcomere of striated muscle, by the sliding of the thick filaments relative to the thin filaments. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sliding flap | A rectangular flap raised in an elastic area, with its free end adjacent to a defect; the defect is covered by stretching the flap longitudinally until the end comes over it. Synonym: advancement flap, French flap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding hernia | A hernia in which an abdominal viscus forms part of the sac. Synonym: extrasaccular hernia, parasaccular hernia, slipped hernia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding hiatal hernia | <radiology> Axial hernia, concentric hernia, 99% of hiatal hernias, portion of peritoneal sac forms part of wall of hernia, aetiology: rupture of phrenicoesophageal membrane due to repetitive stretching with swallowing, incidence: increases with age Findings: UGI, epiphrenic bulge, distance between B ring and hiatal margin greater than 2cm, tortuous oesophagus, gastroesophageal reflux, greater than 6 thick gastric folds within suprahiatal pouch, CT, dehiscence of diaphragmtic crura greater than 15 mm, pseudomass within/above distal oesophagus, fat (omemtum) surrounding distal oesophagus (12 Dec 1998) |
| sliding hook | A movable attachment used on an orthodontic wire for the application of elastic traction or headgear force. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding oblique osteotomy | An oral surgical procedure in which the mandibular ramus is cut vertically from the sigmoid notch to the angle to facilitate posterior repositioning of the mandible in correction of mandibular prognathism; it may be performed extraorally or intraorally, and is similar to vertical osteotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding oesophageal hiatal hernia | Displacement of the cardioesophageal junction and the stomach through the oesophageal hiatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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