(n.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The correction or improvement of incisal guidance, incisal planes, root proximity, and embrasure spaces will enhance long-term stability and successful prognoses.
(2) This was a parallel stratified study which examined the effect on gingival health of a new floss holder and applicator, designed to deliver a 25 microliters dose of 0.1% chlorhexidine solution to each interdental embrasure during the flossing procedure.
(3) At three positions equidistant around the periphery of the egg, narrow, tongue-shaped extensions (the embrasures) from the anterior hydrophilic region project posteriorly into the hydrophobic region.
(4) The finish of the opposite embrasure margin and of the gingival margin was imperfect, regardless of the instrument used.
(5) A properly designed and positioned connector area should allow separation of the units by permitting the development of natural appearing labial embrasures.
(6) The lingual embrasure spaces are usually wider than on the buccal, and with adequate reduction of the mylohyoid ridge, greater access for oral hygiene procedures is provided.
(7) Key factors such as margin placement, tissue damage during tooth preparation, the role of the provisional restoration, tissue injury during impression procedures, crown contour, pontic design, and embrasure design are covered in detail.
(8) Cure-Thru reflective wedges were placed in the gingival embrasure of half of the specimens.
(9) In a closed row of teeth, an adequate finish was obtained at the embrasure margin where the burs rotated toward the tooth surface and into the cavity.
(10) Back at the frontline, first lieutenant Osman said morale was high among his men, who were posted along sandbagged embrasures or who sheltered under tarpaulins from the afternoon sun.
(11) The unfavourable microclimate conditions are determined by the technological process specificity, the area's climatic characteristics and the presence of vast embrasures and openings in the shop building.
(12) Eggs in rafts are maintained in polygonal rosettes by the interlocking of these filaments and hooks and the surface tension of menisci between contiguous embrasures.
(13) Use of an embrasure clasp demands attention to proper clinical preparation and to laboratory procedures as well.
(14) The interdental brush was found to have an excellent effect both in the central part of the interdental space and on the embrasures.
(15) In this clinical case, after removing the old prosthesis, it is observed that the position of the screws is unsuitable, as one of them emerges into the embrasure.
(16) Previous studies showed that interlocking into the embrasures was required for adequate adhesion of Barricaid.
(17) Along these embrasures, progressing posteriorly, the tubercles change in form from flattened and bladelike to finely tapered, then, at the extension's posterior two-thirds, to long filaments with well-developed terminal hooks.
(18) If a space was visible apical to the contact point, then the papilla was deemed missing; if tissue filled the embrasure space, the papilla was considered to be present.
(19) Measurements of the contact and embrasure areas of adjacent extracted teeth set in plaster blocks were made before groups of dentists undertook preparations on them.
(20) The abutment teeth were widened by shifting the embrasure into the edentulous space, thus creating more esthetic proportions.
Indentation
Definition:
(n.) The act of indenting or state of being indented.
(n.) A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
(n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
(n.) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
(n.) The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(2) Attachment appeared to involve a very close physical proximity of treponemes to the cultured cells; at the site of attachment, no changes such as swelling or indentation of the cultured cell surface were observed.
(3) Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58).
(4) Thus, the area with separated HL, which is restricted to the region of the PMC released at the stage of PMC ingression, spreads almost entirely throughout the area of the indenting vegetal plate at gastrulation.
(5) Evidence for net C3 synthesis was based on (a) incorporation of 14C-labeled amino acids into C3 protein, (b) indentity of the allotype of C3 produced in vitro with that of the doner's serum C3, even in the presence of carrier C3 protein of a different allotype; (c) correspondence of electrophoretic mobility, size, and subunit structure of C3 protein produced in vitro with serum C3; (d) inhibition of C3 production with cycloheximide.
(6) The light touch stimulus was a slight indentation of the skin produced through a displacement controlled stimulating probe (tip diameter of 2 mm).
(7) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
(8) The monocytes are large cells with an indented nucleus and cytoplasm containing numerous vesicles of different sizes and also a few lysosomes.
(9) Kitten units responsive to skin indentation showed no evidence of encoding stimulus magnitude information.
(10) The anti-inflammatory effect of dexamethasone was also indentical in both normal and EFAD rats.
(11) (1) was employed to calculate the strain rate and stress from the indentation time and the size of the indentation.
(12) A mathematical solution has been obtained for the indentation creep and stress-relaxation behavior of articular cartilage where the tissue is modeled as a layer of linear KLM biphasic material of thickness h bonded to an impervious, rigid bony substrate.
(13) The responses of slowly-adapting neurons were separated into two components, a "dynamic" response corresponding to activity elicited by the initial indenting ramp and a "static" response produced by the sustained indentation.
(14) Therefore, the pleural indentation sign does not exclusively appear in the lung cancer.
(15) In the fluoride group, a moderate increase of the indentation length and a reduced calcium loss were observed.
(16) Histologically, in addition to diffuse infiltrate of large lymphoid cells with deeply indented nuclei, there were many epithelioid cell granulomas, remarkable tissue eosinophilia and stromal fibrosis, mimicking inflammatory disease.
(17) By utilizing high-speed, microcomputer-controlled data logging techniques, simultaneous monitoring of signals from a dynamic load cell and a displacement transducer could be made throughout an indentation test.
(18) The central axon of a primary afferent neuron that responded to indentation of the glabrous skin of the lower lip in a slowly adapting fashion was intra-axonally injected with horseradish peroxidase.
(19) In addition to the macroglossia, the typical facial signs of this syndrome such as capillary haemangioma of the glabella, soft tissue folds under the eyes and linear indentations of the ear lobes are demonstrable.
(20) Cuplike indentations were present on the paunch epithelial surface and were sites of bacterial aggregation.