triple response — The vascular changes in the skin in response to mild mechanical injury, an outward spreading zone of reddening (flare) followed rapidly by a weal (swelling) at the site of injury. Redness, heat, and swelling, three of the ‘cardinal signs’ of… … Dictionary of molecular biology
Triple H — during his ring entrance. Ring name(s) Triple H Hunter Hearst Helmsley Jean Paul Lévesque Terra Ryzin Billed height … Wikipedia
Triple 8 Race Engineering — This article concerns Triple Eight Race Engineering s BTCC operation. For the V8 Supercar team, see Triple Eight Race Engineering (V8 Supercars) Triple Eight Race Engineering was formed in 1996, primarily to design, build and race Vauxhalls on… … Wikipedia
Triple buffering — In computer graphics, triple buffering is a variant on double buffering, a technique for drawing graphics that shows no (or less) flicker, shearing, and tearing artifacts.Triple buffering attempts to provide a speed improvement over double… … Wikipedia
Triple-alpha process — The triple alpha process is a set of nuclear fusion reactions by which three helium nuclei (alpha particles) are transformed into carbon.cite book|author=Editors Appenzeller, Harwit, Kippenhahn, Strittmatter, Trimble| title= Astrophysics Library… … Wikipedia
Triple Entente — The Triple Entente ( entente French for agreement ) was the name given to the loose alignment of the United Kingdom, the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire after the signing of the Anglo Russian Entente. The alignment of the three… … Wikipedia
Triple Frontier — The Triple Frontier should not be confused with Tres Fronteras, at the common border among Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. The Triple Frontier (Spanish: La Triple Frontera, English: Three Borders Landmark, Portuguese: Tríplice Fronteira) is a tri… … Wikipedia
Triple bolus test — A triple bolus test or a dynamic pituitary function test is a medical diagnostic procedure used to assess a patient s pituitary function. Three hormones (usually synthetic analogues) are injected as a bolus into the patient s vein to stimulate… … Wikipedia
response — 1. The reaction of a muscle, nerve, gland, or other excitable tissue to a stimulus. 2. Any act or behavior, or its constituents, that a living organism is capable of emitting. Reflexes are usually excluded because they are typically elicited by a … Medical dictionary
triple blind — trip·le blind (tripґəl blīnd) pertaining to a clinical trial or other experiment in which neither the subject nor the person administering treatment nor the person evaluating the response to treatment knows which treatment any… … Medical dictionary