What's the difference between cement and outcome?

Cement


Definition:

  • (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).

Outcome


Definition:

  • (n.) That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (3) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
  • (4) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
  • (5) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
  • (6) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (7) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
  • (8) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (9) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
  • (10) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
  • (11) Both demographically and clinically assessed behavioral variables were related to a number of outcome measures, including days in the community, clinical ratings, and family assessment.
  • (12) In spite of antimalaria treatment, with cortisone and then with immuno-depressants, the outcome was fatal with a picture of acute reticulosis and neurological disorders.
  • (13) Adverse outcomes were reported more frequently by consultant physicians, by those who 'titrated' the intravenous sedative, and by those who used an additional intravenous agent, but were reported equally frequently by endoscopists using midazolam and endoscopists using diazepam.
  • (14) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
  • (15) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
  • (16) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
  • (17) The calcium entry blocker nimodipine was administered to cats following resuscitation from 18 min of cardiac arrest to evaluate its effect on neurologic and neuropathologic outcome in a clinically relevant model of complete cerebral ischemia.
  • (18) However, no evidence could be discerned to support its validity as a measure of a patient's treatment outcome.
  • (19) Additionally, the "early warning" capability of SaO2 monitoring was analyzed by recording the severity and outcome of hypoxemic events during treatment.
  • (20) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.