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Pivot(money)
PIVOT(finance)
pivot(1)(dictionary)
pivot(medicine)
pivot(2)(dictionary)
Pivot point(finance)
pivot 1, noun(dictionary)
pivot 2, verb(dictionary)
pivot joint(medicine)

nephrogenetic (medicine) and pivot (medicine)


nephrogenetic (medicine)


nephrogenetic


Nephrogenic

Developing into kidney tissue.

Origin: nephro-+ G. Genesis, origin


pivot (medicine)


pivot


1. A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or Other body turns.

2. The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.

3. Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.

4. The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; called also pivot man. Pivot bridge, a form of drawbridge in which one span, called the pivot span, turns about a central vertical axis. Pivot gun, a gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction.

<dentistry> Pivot tooth, an artificial crown attached to the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg.

Origin: F.; prob. Akin to It. Piva pipe, F. Pipe. See Pipe.

Source: Websters Dictionary