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contour (medicine)


contour


1. The outline of a part; the surface configuration.

2. In dentistry, to restore the normal outlines of a broken or otherwise misshapen tooth, or to create the external shape or form of a prosthesis.

Origin: L. Con-(intens.), + torno, to turn (in a lathe), fr. Tornus, a lathe


elephant (iou)



elephant noun. . ME.
[Old French olifant, elefant (mod. elephant) from Proto-Romance alt. of Latin elephantus, elepha(n)s from Greek elephas, elephant- ivory, elephant, prob. of alien origin; English el- by assim. to Latin.]
The largest living land mammal, with a prehensile trunk used for taking up Food and water, a hairless body, and usu. a pair of long curved tusks, of which two species remain in existence. ME.
Ivory; a horn or trumpet of ivory. arch. ME.
= ELEPHANTA. E17-E18.
In full elephant paper. A former large size of drawing paper, typically 28 23 inches (approx. 711 584 mm). E18.
A shade of grey. L19.
(The emblem of) the Republican Party. US colloq. L19.
A corrugated iron dugout or Nissen hut. Also elephant dugout, elephant hut. Army slang. E20.
Phrases: African elephant the larger of the two species of elephant, Loxodonta africana, with large ears. Indian elephant the smaller of the two species of elephant, Elephas maximus, with proportionately smaller ears. Order of the Elephant a Danish order of knighthood. pink elephant: see PINK adjective2. see the elephant US see the sights; see the world, get experience of life. white elephant: see WHITE adjective.
Comb.: elephant-bird = AEPYORNIS; elephant dugout: see sense 7 above; elephant fish (a) a large silvery chimaeroid fish, Callorhinchus milii, of Australia and New Zealand, with a long flexible snout bent sharply downwards at the tip; (b) = elephant-snout fish below; elephant grass any of various tall robust tropical grasses and grasslike plants, esp. the African Pennisetum purpureum; elephant hut: see sense 7 above; elephant joke a child's nonsense riddle with an elephant as the subject; elephant paper: see sense 4 above; elephant seal either of two very large seals of the genus Mirounga, of which the males have inflatable snouts; elephant's ear any of various ornamental plants, esp. species of begonia, with large heart-shaped leaves; elephant's foot either of two southern African yams, Dioscorea elephantipes and D. sylvatica, with large woody edible tubers projecting above the ground; elephant shrew any mammal of the African order Macroscelidea, comprising small insectivorous creatures with a long snout and small hind limbs; elephant-snout fish any of various mormyrids with an elongated snout that resembles an elephant's trunk; elephant's teeth ivory; elephant trunk snake the wart snake of Java, Acrochordus javanicus, which has flabby skin.