(n.) The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.
(n.) The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) This modification allows for precision of movement, ease of repositioning, and adaptation of rigid skeletal stabilization of mobilized osseous segments in the chin.
(2) This investigation presents a commentary about two researches locating the terminal hing axis (THA) in totally edentulous people determined through the guided and not guided methods with chin compression.
(3) A case is reported of a patient with sudden onset, generalized toothache accompanied with a numb chin and lower lip.
(4) The first group was treated with functional appliances, the second with Begg light wire, and the third with chin cups.
(5) The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of the chin cap on bone remodeling by elucidating the characteristics and distribution of SGP at various parts on the mandible.
(6) The patient acquired this fungus by cutting his chin on a wooden floor.
(7) They win this game, it could be fear the Gillette shaved chin.
(8) The clockwise rotational movement which occurs with this treatment modality has, additionally, a favourable effect on the anterior facial height and in many cases on the position of the chin.
(9) Not all hemotympanums represent basilar skull fractures, especially when they occur in association with chin trauma.
(10) The victim was named yesterday as Tyrone Donovan Gilbert, of Longsight, Manchester, who was drinking with more than 100 other friends of Ucal Chin, also 23, killed in a drive-by shooting last month.
(11) Growth of the lower anterior teeth and alveolar bone compensated for the incremental vertical spaces which were induced by superior displacement of the premaxilla and inferior repositioning of the chin.
(12) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
(13) Injection of autologous adipose tissue removed via liposuction has been used clinically for facial contouring, the aging face, furrows, facial atrophy, acne scars, nasolabial folds, chin, and various other surgical defects.
(14) In addition, the amount of anterior displacement of the upper and lower anterior teeth were significantly larger than that of the premaxilla and the chin.
(15) Having drawn soft profile and perpendicular to face plane (Na-Pg) from the tips of lips, chin and nose, thicknesses of soft tissue are measured.
(16) We therefore measured electromyographic activation of the masseters during inspiratory resistance loading and compared it with activation of chin muscles and alae nasi in 10 normal subjects.
(17) Skeletal classifications were based on the relationship of the maxilla to the mandible; the three classifications were straight profile, retrusive chin profile, and prognathic profile.
(18) Barton then flung a half-hearted elbow at Tevez's chin or chest and the City player went down ridiculously easily.
(19) I lied to her, I said I will come,” he says, rubbing his unshaven chin.
(20) Indications in maxillo-facial surgery are the correction of "double chin" deformity and increased submental fullness after orthognathic surgical procedures as mandibular setback, as well as an adjunct to rhytidectomy.
Mental
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.
(n.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(2) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(3) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(4) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(5) What constitutes a "mental disorder" for purposes of the insanity defense?
(6) The physicians did diagnose and treat a number of patients with mental symptoms who were not identified by the DIS.
(7) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
(8) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(9) This new way of thinking is reflected in the 1992 AAMR definition of what mental retardation is (Luckasson et al., 1992).
(10) Changing conditions call for each Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) to develop a survival strategy based on its own standards and values.
(11) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
(12) A 4-year prospective study was carried out on 53 chronically mentally ill patients living in a differentiated complementary residential complex.
(13) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(14) The author describes the utilization review process, utilization patterns, and service cost of the Mental Health Service of the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP).
(15) The Global Assessment Scale was used by multiple clinicians to rate 108 chronically mentally ill outpatients for 18 months.
(16) In order to map the mental state in the early puerperium the authors gave to a group of 100 women for five days after delivery Lüscher's colour test.
(17) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(18) The attitude towards drug trials was negative in 79% of the personnel, in contrast to 71% positive in three Swedish mental hospitals.
(19) Care for black and minority ethnic communities is seen as a "major faultline in mental health".
(20) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.