(n.) An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of the subjects' mandibular movements did not improve to the point of making reproducible border movements on a pantograph.
(2) An analysis of variance showed that the condylar inclination recorded by wax was statistically less than recorded with a pantograph.
(3) A total of 136 dentulous patients were divided into three groups for purposes of quantitative pantographic comparison of voluntary and induced Bennett movement.
(4) The average condylar inclination recorded with a pantograph (29.5 degrees) was greater than the recording by either intraoral registration material.
(5) The object of our research is to compare clinically and objectively three articulators: -- the Dentatus, semiadjustable articulator which employs dynamico-static records -- the T.M.J., fully adjustable articulator which employs dynamico-cinematic stereographic endobuccal records -- the Denar, fully adjustable articulator which employs dynamico-cinematic pantographic extrabuccal records.
(6) The pantographic reproducibility index (PRI) has been developed to quantitate incoordinated mandibular movements; one of the signs and symptoms of TMJ dysfunction.
(7) Proper use of a pantograph to program fully adjustable articulators is dependent on stable clutch construction.
(8) A comparison between the pantograph and the polyvinyl siloxane displayed no statistically significant difference in recording condylar inclination.
(9) Other features of the articulator are: (1) a condylar lock mechanism which is activated by only a half turn, (2) adjustable spring tension, (3) precise long centric and wide centric controls, (4) an incisal pain which can be removed and replaced on the articulator without changing its setting, (5) a Bennett movement carefully selected to avoid the complication of a pantograph type of face-bow, and (6) a new sponge wall type of mounting plate which supports both casts for simultaneous mounting.
(10) In an experimental investigation, Stuart pantographic records are geometrically analyzed.
(11) It can be inferred that the actual idling condylar displacement was more inward and upward than that measured by the Pantograph.
(12) Articulator settings were obtained for two subjects 10 times in a 2-week period by using both a lateral interocclusal record technique and a Pantronic pantograph.
(13) The methods of recording immediate side shift from best to worst were: (1) electronic pantograph; (2) polyether interocclusal records; (3) mechanical pantography (Denar) and simplified mandibular motion analyzer (Panadent); (4) simplified mandibular motion analyzer (Whip-Mix and Denar); and (5) zinc oxide interocclusal records.
(14) The incisal point movement was recorded using Sirognathograph Analysing System, and condylar movement was recorded with a pantograph.
(15) For construction of craniopantograph the principles of function of two typical instruments--craniometer and pantograph were used.
(16) Twenty pantographic recordings were transferred to the Stuart fully adjustable articulator.
(17) A clinical experiment was undertaken to study the relationship between occlusal therapy and pantographic reproducibility.
(18) Using this technique a stable centric relation position can be maintained during the maxillary cast mounting procedure and the subsequent setting of the articulator to the pantographic recordings.
(19) Even after removing and reinserting the clutches several times, retention is sufficient to support the weight of the pantograph.
(20) Pantographic tracings were made and transferred to the semiadjustable articulator.
Tram
Definition:
(n.) A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
(n.) The shaft of a cart.
(n.) One of the rails of a tramway.
(n.) A car on a horse railroad.
(n.) A silk thread formed of two or more threads twisted together, used especially for the weft, or cross threads, of the best quality of velvets and silk goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that although the tissue expansion technique yields acceptable results, the TRAM flap yields superior aesthetic results in terms of both appearance and consistency.
(2) The most commonly used techniques, in our institution, are tissue expansion, use of the latissimus dorsi flap, and use of the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap.
(3) Both the TraM* and TraM' proteins were found to bind specifically to a broad region preceding the traM gene.
(4) This is true not only for TRAM and latissimus dorsi flaps, but also for the mastectomy flap necrosis sometimes encountered in immediate reconstruction with simple implants or tissue expanders.
(5) The fertility control gene finP, the transfer gene traM, and the transfer origin, oriT, of plasmid R100 were isolated on a single 1.2-kilobase EcoRV fragment and were then subcloned as HaeIII fragments.
(6) Before leaving for Afghanistan, Dahmane was a regular at an Islamic Centre in Molenbeek and met Malika el-Aroud, who later became his wife, at a tram stop in the city.
(7) How to buy tickets for a train or a tram, why we shouldn’t eat in the street or talk loudly on our cell phones, how we must talk to women … I want to stay here; it’s important to understand.” Like nearly 5,000 fellow asylum seekers in Vienna, Wafa lives in a large emergency refugee shelter and is awaiting a move to longer-term accommodation either in Vienna or elsewhere in Austria.
(8) Among these findings, tram-tracking of the optic nerve sheath complex is rare.
(9) Most major cities sell travel cards valid for multiple journeys or a specific number of days that can be used across buses, trams and metros and result in small savings that really add up.
(10) Until now, application of a TRAM free flap, however, has only taken place in special circumstances.
(11) The complication rate was equal for both groups (24%) with infection being most common in the group of patients with tissue expansion and partial flap necrosis being most common in the group of patients with TRAM flaps.
(12) Two reconstructive techniques were used, that is, either tissue expansion with secondary prosthesis implantation (60%) or transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap (40%).
(13) The mayor said from September 2018, an electric tram-bus – nicknamed the “Olympic tramway” in honour of Paris’s bid for the 2024 Games – would run next to part of the upper highways along the Seine in both directions.
(14) In this population, being a bus or tram driver was an independent predictor of CHD of considerable magnitude.
(15) Of the 7 of 20 (35 percent) free TRAM flap patients who required post-operative chemotherapy, only 1 of 7 (14 percent) was delayed because of TRAM flap complications.
(16) By hybridizing the IncFVII haemolytic plasmid pSU233 with a probe containing the origin of transfer of the IncFII plasmid R1, we isolated a 1.9 kb BglII fragment containing at least the origin of transfer (oriT), and the genes traM and finP.
(17) The characteristic findings of diffuse panbronchiolitis are diffuse small nodular shadows, overinflation and tram-lines.
(18) With crime falling and public transport improving, especially with the new tram networks, people want to live in urban areas like never before.
(19) He demonstrates a case of bilateral reconstruction of the breasts by means of a TRAM flap.
(20) The possible roles of the traI and traM products in conjugation are discussed.