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movement
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movement (Activity), noun campaign, cause, mass movement, motion, operation, principle, series of actions directed towards a particular end, undertaking
movement (Progress), noun action, agitation, circulation, course, denomination, effort, great cause, interest, issue, measure, outflow, performance, removal, shift, step, stir, stride, transition, transmittal, traveling
movement (Shipment), noun cartage, conveyance, transit, transportation
See also: activity, band, campaign, circulation, course, denomination, dispatch, operation, outflow, progress, transition, transmittal


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The degree of mandibular movement is determined by different length straps, and their elastic pull can be adjusted to suit each patient's musculature.
Essentially, the patient had a cartilaginous dehiscence of his anterior meatal wall with loose overlying skin, which popped in and out with mandibular movement.
[1] A 47-year-old man came to the office complaining of chronic temporomandibular joint pain on the left, which was associated with a left-sided trismus and a decreased range of mandibular movement.
 
 
 
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