| isolated abutment | A lone-standing tooth, or root, used as an abutment with edentulous areas mesial and distal to it. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| abutment | <dentistry> The teeth on either side of a missing tooth. (08 Jan 1998) |
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| auxiliary abutment | A tooth other than the one supporting the direct retainer, assisting in the overall support of a removable partial denture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| splinted abutment | The joining of two or more teeth into a rigid unit by means of fixed restorations to form a single abutment with multiple roots. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate abutment | A natural tooth, or an implanted tooth substitute, without other natural teeth in proximal contact, used along with the mesial and distal abutment's to support a prosthesis; often called a "pier." (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated | Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. <geometry> See Acnode. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| isolated dextrocardia | Dextrocardia with mirror transposition of the cardiac chambers but without displacement of the abdominal viscera. Synonym: type 2 dextrocardia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated dyskeratosis follicularis | warty dyskeratoma |
| isolated explosive disorder | A disorder of impulse control characterised by a single episode of failure to resist a violent, externally directed act which had serious impact on others. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated limb perfusion | <oncology, procedure> Chemotherapy treatment in which blood is taken from a patient, pumped through a machine that adds anticancer drugs to the blood, then returned to the limb being treated. (15 Oct 1997) |
| isolated parietal endocarditis | Fibrous thickening of the endocardium of the left ventricle without valvular involvement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated proteinuria | Proteinuria in a patient who is asymptomatic, has normal renal function and urinary sediment, and has no manifestation of systemic disease upon initial examination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated system | <chemistry> A system which can exchange neither mass nor energy with its surroundings. (09 Jan 1998) |