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offset(1) (iou) and constrictions of ureter (medicine)


offset(1) (iou)



offset noun. M16.
[from OFF- + SET noun1. Cf. SET-OFF.]
The act of setting off (on a journey or course of action); the outset, a start, a beginning. M16.
A short lateral shoot, esp. from the lower stem, bulb, or corm, of a plant, serving for propagation; transf. & fig. a lateral branch, an offshoot, a collateral descendant; a spur of a mountain range. E17.
A thing that acts as a foil to embellish, or throws something else into prominence. L17.
Surveying. A short distance measured perpendicularly from a main line of measurement. E18.
Architecture. A horizontal or sloping break or ledge on the face of a wall, pier, etc., formed where the portion above is reduced in thickness. E18.
A counterbalance to or compensation for something else; a consideration or amount diminishing or neutralizing the effect of a contrary one; a set-off. M18.
Printing. The transfer of ink from a freshly printed surface; a printing process in which ink is transferred from a plate (orig. a stone) to a rubber-covered cylinder and then transferred to paper. L19.
lithographic offset, photolitho offset. offset litho, offset lithography, offset printing, offset process.
A bend in a pipe, made to carry it past an obstruction. E20.
Electricity. A small deviation from a correct or normal voltage, current, etc.; a small bias introduced to ensure correct operation of a circuit. M20.
Comb.: offset purchase Economics a purchase made abroad by agreement to counterbalance revenues spent in the buying country by the selling country; offset well an oil or gas well drilled in a particular area to counteract drainage of oil or gas from there caused by drilling in an adjacent area.

constrictions of ureter (medicine)


constrictions of ureter
Normal physiological narrowings of the ureter observable in a pyelogram; the uppermost occurs at the origin of the ureter from the renal pelvis; a second occurs as the ureter crosses the iliac vessels and pelvic brim; the inferiormost occurs as the ureter penetrates the wall of the urinary bladder.