Medical
- FDI World Dental Federation, Fédération dentaire internationale. The World Dental Federation also have an Annual World Dental Congress, also known as the FDI.
- first dorsal interosseous, one of the four dorsal interossei muscles of the hand (not to be confused with the fourth dorsal interosseous)
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Famous quotes containing the word medical:
“They said Id never get you back again.
I tell you what youll never really know:
all the medical hypothesis
that explained my brain will never be as true as these
struck leaves letting go.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
“Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearers character, until we hesitate to lay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)