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a situation in which people or things are crowded together

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Pre-treatment dental casts were used to calculate crowding. The radiographs were traced manually with an acetate paper attached on top and used to calculate the apical base lengths of the maxilla and mandible.
The report broke down the findings from 2005 and 2013 by borough, showing that the Bronx experienced the biggest increase in severe crowding, jumping 74.2 percent, followed by Staten Island at 53.5 percent, Brooklyn with 49.1 percent, Manhattan with 25.5 percent, and Queens at 24.9 percent.
Medicaid expansions and the crowding out of private health insurance among children.
Of course, the Times columnist wasn't alone in fanning the flames of the anti-NCLB hysteria, but his influential columns made it easier for city officials to avoid talking about the real reasons for the problems, namely, a demographic bubble that was moving its way through the city's middle and high schools, combined with the city's new initiative to create experimental "schools within schools" in certain buildings, a policy that required a cap on enrollment in some schools at the cost of crowding elsewhere.
While many emergency departments across the country reported some degree of crowding, the problem is more pronounced in certain hospitals and communities.
There was moderate maxillary spacing and moderate mandibular crowding. She did have a retained mandibular primary left second molar (Figure 3).
He is an international expert on environmental stress resulting from noise, crowding, inadequate housing, and air pollution.
That degree of crowding far exceeds any known density of macroscopic animals, he notes.
Various studies have been conducted to find the cause of crowding in Class I malocclusion however causes vary from one population to another.
DISPELLING WIDELY HELD myths about various ethnic groups' tolerance of crowding, a new study finds that Asian Americans and Latin Americans are just as uncomfortable in crowded homes as are Anglo Americans (Americans of European descent) and African Americans.
For the first time one can see beyond the track a spectacular view of urban immensity: lights below, silhouettes of towers, more crowds - yes, a panorama of crowding, which is only a panorama because one is momentarily out of the crowd.
For more than 30 years, an influential theory has held that crowding brings out beastly behavior in people and many other animals.
Mandibular Incisor crowding is one of the common problem faced by orthodontic patients.