(n.) Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
(n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
(n.) The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
(n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
(n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
(n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
(n.) To unite firmly or closely.
(n.) To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
(v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(2) The incidence of femur fracture in non-cemented hip arthroplasty has been reported to be between 4.1% and 27.8%.
(3) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(4) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(5) Cermet cement sealings showed defects more frequently.
(6) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(7) To overcome these problems we developed methotrexate bone cement (MTX-Palacos) with the aim to obtain high local concentrations of methotrexate in order to destroy remaining tumor cells and avoid systemic side effects.
(8) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
(9) No clear population trends were seen in dental disease incidence except for cemental caries which were found among Copper and Bronze Age remains.
(10) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(11) Bone cement particles promote polyethylene wear, which in turn promotes granuloma formation, bone resorption, and subsequent bone cement disintegration.
(12) In addition, hypertension, blood group, surgical approach, and choice of cemented or cementless total hip replacement did not seem to affect the incidence of deep-vein thrombosis.
(13) The use of glass-ionomer cements in clinical dentistry has expanded greatly over the last decade.
(14) This study evaluated the bond strength between glass ionomer cements and laser-etched dentin.
(15) Microscopy revealed a spectrum of tissue reactions, ranging from a seemingly direct bone-cement contact to a fibrous membrane, up to 1.5 mm thick.
(16) Forty metal femoral cups were matched with a cemented acetabulum, while with 46 the acetabular implant was cementless.
(17) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
(18) No significant differences were found among any of the cements at any of the times.
(19) With equal cementing conditions and points of measurement for all crowns, the PFM crowns were found to be significantly superior to the other crown types.
(20) This study evaluated the usefulness and accuracy of preoperative planning for cemented and cementless total hip arthroplasty (THA).
Material
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
(a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
(a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
(a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
(n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
(v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
(2) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(3) Significant amounts of 35S-labeled material were lost during the alkali treatment.
(4) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
(5) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
(6) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
(7) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
(8) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
(9) The base materials caused more pulpal inflammation than the control material, Kalzinol, although by an indirect mechanism.
(10) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(11) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(12) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
(13) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
(14) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
(15) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
(16) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
(17) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
(18) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(19) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
(20) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.