Category: C

The act or state of sticking together tightly. The force whereby molecules of matter adhere to one another; the attraction of aggregation. Molecular attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout their mass. Friction between molecules that causes them to adhere to an object submerged in the water.  

Abutment: Surface treatment for an abutment to alter its optical transmission characteristics. A substance applied to all or a portion of the dental implant. A close, dense thin layer formed on the surface of an organ either by disintegration of part of that organ or by an exudate.  

Proper alignment of the displaced edges of a wound or the ends of a fractured bone. The adjustment of separate parts to each other, as the edges of fractures.  

A clot or a coagulated mass. A mass of coagulated matter, such as that formed when blood clots. A coagulated mass, clot, or precipitate.  

The process of changing liquid to solid, especially of blood; clotting. In colloid chemistry, the solidification of a sol into a gelatinous mass; an alteration of a disperse phase or of a dissolved solid which causes the separation of the system into a liquid phase and an insoluble mass called the clot or curd. Coagulation…

In dentistry, the proper realignment of displaced parts back to their original position, as in the fractured incisal edge of a central incisor that may be coadapted and bonded back to its original position.  

Computer numerical control machining.  

Cytomegalovirus. 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 device affixed to the maxillary and mandibular arches to support components that record mandibular movement.