(1) A review of the chromosome findings in 25 male tortoiseshell or calico (T-C) cats showed a variety of aneuploidy, polyploidy, mosaicism, and chimerism.
(2) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
(3) When they settle on garden flowers they are as striking as their less adventurous relatives, the red admiral and the small tortoiseshell.
(4) The yellow-nonyellow pattern of the tortoiseshell guinea pig is presented as a model for the distribution of mutant and nonmutant neural-crest cells in von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (NF-1).
(5) The old quarry has been reclaimed back to its natural habitat by Mother Nature.” As he speaks I spot more butterflies, mainly whites and browns and red admirals as well as a small tortoiseshell.
(6) There has been some more cheerful news, such as the comeback of the large tortoiseshell butterfly, which was thought to be extinct in the UK but bred successfully on Trust land in south Devon in March and was spotted elsewhere along the south coast.
(7) When passengers arrive at Kishi station in western Japan they are greeted by a tortoiseshell cat named Tama, whose feline charms are bringing the sleepy Kishigawa line back to life.
(8) The trust has previously sent squirrels to Anglesey, including several offspring of one red squirrel known as Tortoiseshell, who gave birth to 50 kittens before she died aged nine this year.
Veneer
Definition:
(v. t.) To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.
(v. t.) A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The etched porcelain laminate veneer is a new conservative treatment that offers a solution to fractured, discolored, and worn anterior teeth.
(2) All bridges were made of type-3 casting gold and heat-cured acrylic veneering.
(3) Porcelain veneer restorations including preparations, impression materials, cast materials, refractory casts, handling of porcelain, the try-in, and the final luting are discussed.
(4) The resulting data reported on labial enamel thickness of anterior teeth may offer guidance in the preparation of laminate veneers.
(5) Based on the viewpoint that stresses the importance of achieving natural colors and forms for veneer crown, four representative kinds of thermosetting resins were investigated colorimetrically in an attempt to clarify the relationship between the thickness and color of resins in opaque, dentin and enamel colors respectively.
(6) During irradiation light-cured veneer acrylics underwent shrinking by 2.2 to 4.8%.
(7) It is expected that porcelain veneer restorations will perform successfully in esthetic, conservative and abhesive dentistry.
(8) These veneers restored the worn palatal surfaces of the anterior maxillary teeth, protected them from further wear and controlled thermal sensitivity.
(9) In children porcelain veneers provide a simple means of splinting traumatised anterior teeth which have coronal fractures either for the immediate or the long term.
(10) Only one patient exhibited any change in veneer surface texture during the study period.
(11) The ceramic veneering had worse results only in the flexural strength test compared with the two bonding systems.
(12) There is talk of putting Corbynistas into some of the key positions on the national executive: that would do nothing but give a veneer of accountability to leadership fiat.
(13) It also confirmed that the strength of the veneer was not proportional to its thickness.
(14) Sports day is simply our “getting off the boat” moment – when the savage beneath the civilised veneer finally reveals itself.
(15) Too little use is made of veneer crowns in the anterior area with increasing age (Fig.
(16) Using a simple press-molding technique, well-fitting crowns, inlays, and veneers can be fabricated without an additional ceramming procedure.
(17) Labial veneering of the pontic with Vitadur-N significantly decreased the stability compared with that of the unveneered In-Ceram framework.
(18) The failure rates ranged from 2.4 to 7.8 per cent per year for the different crowns in order of: partial veneer less than full veneer less than metal ceramic less than porcelain jacket crowns.
(19) An in vitro model has been developed simulating a composite laminate veneer restoration, along with methods to mimic the environmental conditions to which these restorations are subjected in vivo.
(20) The disadvantages of these techniques were discussed and an alternative treatment with laminate veneers was provided.