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Trigger Point

An event that causes another event. For example, an exchange may stop trade on a stock if its price drops by 10% in a single trading session. In that case, the trigger point is the 10% drop.

trigger point

The event or condition that initiates a predetermined action. For example, the New York Stock Exchange halts trading in stocks when the Dow Jones Industrial Average declines by a specified number of points (the trigger point) in a trading session.

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Seventy patients presenting with complaint of neu- ralgia like pain with intra-oral trigger zone previous history of tooth extraction or other surgical procedure in the jaws and radiographic evidence of jaw bone cav- itation were included in the study irrespective of age and gender and surgical debridement was performed to confirm the diagnosis of NICO.

Frequency and pattern of presentation of neuralgia inducing cavitational osteonecrosis

After lateral medullary infarct CLH is a rare but important association which suggests a possible trigger zone in lateral medulla.

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When a finger enters the trigger zone, the sensor sends an actuation signal to the device involved.