Category: H

Any compound, such as aluminum chloride or ferric sulfate, that stops or decreases hemorrhage. Oftentimes, these agents are used to control bleeding during impression taking, restoration delivery, and surgical procedures.  

An agent, apparatus, or instrument that may be used to stop hemorrhage. Any agent that arrests, chemically or mechanically, the flow of blood from an open vessel. Pliers-like instrument used to compress blood vessels to stop the bleeding. A device or medicine that arrests the flow of blood.  

The arrest of bleeding, either physiologically, surgically, or mechanically. The process which spontaneously arrests the flow of blood from vessels carrying blood under pressure. It is accomplished by contraction of the vessels, adhesion and aggregation of formed blood elements, and the process of blood or plasma coagulation. The condition of controlled bleeding. Stopping hemorrhage. Naturally…

Escape of blood from the circulatory system; often excessive and may be uncontrollable. Bleeding or escape of blood from a vessel. The escape of large volumes of blood from a blood vessel. May be external bleeding or internal bleeding. Abnormal internal or external discharge of blood. Bleeding from the blood vessels, often as the result…

Partial surgical removal of the maxilla.  

An ultrastructural feature located on the basal surface of some epithelial cells forming the position of attachment between the basal surface of the cell and the basement membrane, or the conditioning film of a dental implant. The half of a desmosome produced by epithelial cells for attachment of the basal surface of the cell to…

Progenitor or precursor cells found in the bone marrow from which all blood cell types of both the myeloid and lymphoid lineages are derived. Is a cell isolated from the blood or bone marrow that can renew itself, and can differentiate to a variety of specialized cells. A pluripotent cell capable of differentiating into various…