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A cutting instrument for shaping gingival contours. It has a curved and angled shaft for use either on the right or left sides and on the mesial or distal surfaces.  

A device or instrument used to shape something by cutting off the material along its margin.  

Performed with three hands, as an obstetrical maneuver.  

A tremulous sound, especially in vocal music.  

A fetus exhibiting trigonocephaly.  

The first three cusps of a lower molar tooth.  

Excision of the base of the bladder.  

An area of tissue that is tender when compressed and may give rise to referred pain and tenderness. A specific region of the body that elicits pain when touched or subjected to pressure.  

The initiation of a mechanically generated breath after the detection of a change in airway pressure, after a change in air flow, or after an alteration in the flow wave form.  

In genetics, a condition in which three alleles are present at any particular locus on the chromosome.