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Blade: The flat section of a hockey stick that contacts the puck.

Blade Grinder: Small coffee grinder using a propeller-like blade to grind coffee.

Shoulder Blades Into Your Back Pockets: An image to encourage upper back and shoulder stability. Visualize your shoulder blades moving down your back into the back pockets of your jeans.

Rockered Blades: Used by professional ice hockey skaters; the gentle curve in a very sharp blade of an ice skate produced by rounding the toe and heel of the blade to make it easier for hockey players to tur . . . View Full Definition

Blade Angle: The angle between the plane of propeller rotation and the face of the

Feeler Gage: A gage consisting of a group of very thin blades, each of which is accurately ground to a specific thickness.

Receptor Site Former: A duplicate form of a root shaped or blade shaped body of an implant. Designed to form an osseous implant receptor site for implant shapes that are not prepared with rotating instruments. Ut . . . View Full Definition

Autogyro: An aircraft, often wingless, with unpowered rotary airfoil blades that auto-rotate and serve as wings as they move through the air when mounted on a powered aircraft (or, in some cases, a gl . . . View Full Definition

Radius Gage: Any one of a number of small, flat, standard-shaped metal leafs or blades used for checking the accuracy of regular concave and convex surfaces.

Horizontal Endosteal Implant: Flat, blade-shaped implants of varying thickness which derive their support from a horizontal length of bone. They can be perforated, smooth, flouted, textured, coated, vented, multiheaded a . . . View Full Definition