Category: C

The layer of compact bone at the alveolar crest.  

Usually restricted to the jaw bones, this lytic lesion displays loose fibrillar connective tissue, numerous capillaries, and multinuclear giant cells, and a histologic appearance similar to the bony lesions of hyperparathyroidism  

Surgical flap that is moved to a new position coronal to its previous position.  

Elastic, soft, white fibers containing protein collagen fibril bundles that are the most representative component of all connective tissue.  

Collagenous fiber bundles within the gingiva that encircle the tooth in a ring‐like fashion.  

Determination of a condition based on history and physical examination without use of laboratory or microscopic tests.  

An agent that inhibits or prevents the function of cells. A substance which has a toxic effect on cells. An antibody or other substance that attacks the cells, preventing their normal function and/or destroying them. An antibody or toxin that attacks the cells of particular organs.  

Having the ability to kill cells. Of or relating to substances that are toxic to cells; cell-killing. Poisonous to cells. Toxic to cells, preventing their reproduction or growth. An agent that is toxic to certain cells a nd thus toxic to organs, tissues, or other cells. A substance that is toxic to cells. Referring to…

A DNA virus, genetically distinct from other herpesviruses, that grows more readily in fibroblasts than in epithelial and lymphoid cells; causes cytomegalic inclusion disease and mononucleosis, and is secreted in renal transplant patients. A virus that infects 40-90 percent of American heterosexuals, and about 95 percent of homosexuals. CMV normally produces a latent (nonclinical, nonobvious)…

Any of several regulatory proteins, such as the interleukins and lymphokines, that are released by cells of the immune system and act as intercellular or intracellular mediators in the generation of an immune response, e.g., platelet‐derived growth factor (PDGF), insulin growth factors (IGFs), transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF‐β1), bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), and epidermal…