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pathfinder /path·find·er/ (path´fīnd″er)
1. an instrument for locating urethral strictures.
2. a dental instrument for tracing the course of root canals.

path·find·er (pthfndr)
n.
A filiform bougie for introduction through a narrow stricture as a guide for the passage of a larger instrument.

pathfinder,
a thin, flexible cylindric instrument containing a series of filiform guides, used to locate strictures.

pathfinder [path´fīnd-er]
an instrument for locating urethral strictures.

pathfinder,
pathfinder
1. an instrument for locating urethral strictures.
2. a dental instrument for tracing the course of root canals.


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1997 Mars Pathfinder and Mars Global Surveyor add detail to NASA's view of the Red Planet.
Similar instruments on a future Mars lander could measure the strength of Martian dust devils, which have shown up on images taken by the Mars Pathfinder lander and by probes orbiting the Red Planet.
The decision to send two rovers was good news for JPL, which has plucked scientists who worked on the highly successful 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission - on which aspects of the future mission are based - to fill key positions on the 2003 team.
 
 
 
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