(n.) A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.
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).
Consolidation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
(n.) To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.
(n.) The combination of several actions into one.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(2) At consolidation, the distraction area was composed of lamellar trabecular and partly woven bone.
(3) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(4) The information suggests a certain consolidation of earlier efforts.
(5) The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial,” said Peter Hahn, professor of banking at the London Institute of Banking & Finance.
(6) Therapy included intensive induction and consolidation followed by a cyclic, sequential maintenance program.
(7) This intra-oral model might be useful for studies of the organic material incorporated into enamel during the process of consolidation.
(8) In a single-institution study, 23 consecutive children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have been treated with a protocol including doxorubicin, cytarabine and 6-thioguanine as induction therapy, followed by four courses of high-dose cytarabine as consolidation.
(9) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
(10) These results suggest that noradrenaline (NA) is required for memory consolidation processes for about 2 h after training.
(11) Chest X-ray revealed cavity and consolidation in the right upper lobe.
(12) These include fibrosis with or without consolidation (n = 12), ground-glass opacities (n = 7), widespread bilateral consolidation (n = 2), and bronchial wall thickening with areas of decreased attenuation (n = 2).
(13) They were thought to be caused by the rotor practice interfering with just-learned ladder skill consolidation, so that the gain in skill was not processed into long-term memory.
(14) In the former, consolidation of the lung was noticed and useful in the diagnosis, but in the latter, no distinct change was observed in plain chest roentogenogram.
(15) The filling of the defect and fracture consolidation took place in 87 (91.7%) patients.
(16) A different, more straightforwardly anti-cuts message could perhaps consolidate a left-vote in a PR system, but is unlikely to work for a party seeking to lead.
(17) Postremission therapy consolidation has been judged to be necessary while the clinical roles of maintenance and intensification remain to be clarified and appear to still require an investigational approach.
(18) LTP in these two structures could underlie their role in memory consolidation and could explain the late involvement of the entorhinal cortex in post-training memory processing.
(19) The functions of medical physicists and their roles in consolidation of the relations between medicine and natural sciences and engineering are discussed.
(20) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.