All cases were treated by Dr. Chris Chang, president of Beethoven Orthodontic and Implant Group in Hsinchu, Taiwan. For detailed case reports, go to http://i. FUNCTIONAL SHIFT. Healthcare, Lifestyle. And Transformation Consultancy. NUTRITIONAL SHIFT. Food-state nutritional supplementation. To support your shift. Due to the discrepancy between the maxillary and mandibular arch, neuromuscular guidance of the mandible causes mandible to shift towards the side of the crossbite. This is also known as Functional mandibular shift. This shift can become structural if left untreated for a long time during growth, leading to skeletal asymmetries.
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n. A shift in the syntactic function of a word, as when a noun serves as a verb.
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func′tional shift′
n.
a change in the grammatical function of a word, as in the use of the noun input as a verb.
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functional shift
- The process by which words change parts of speech without the addition of a prefix or suffix, as in soldier on, the verb, being created from soldier, the noun.Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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