| ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
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| CDSM | Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials |
| TM | technology management; tectorial membrane; temperature by mouth; temporalis muscle; temporomandibula... |
| PVE | Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis |
| APRL | American Prosthetic Research Laboratory |
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| drug implants | Small containers or pellets of a solid drug implanted in the body to achieve sustained release of the drug. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| implants, experimental | Artificial substitutes for body parts and materials inserted into organisms during experimental studies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| endometrial implants | Fragments of endometrial mucosa implanted on pelvic structure following retrograde transference through the oviducts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| biocompatible materials | Any substance (other than a drug), synthetic or natural, that can be used as a system or part of a system that treats, augments, or replaces any tissue, organ, or function of the body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| manufactured materials | Substances and materials manufactured for use in various technologies and industries and for domestic use. (12 Dec 1998) |
| materials management, hospital | The management of all procurement, distribution, and storage of equipment and supplies, as well as logistics management including laundry, processing of reusables, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| materials recovery facility | A recycling facility for municipal solid waste. (05 Dec 1998) |
| materials testing | The testing of materials and devices, especially those used for implants, prostheses, sutures, adhesives, etc., for hardness, strength, durability, safety, and efficacy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| restorative dental materials | Material's used to replace oral tissues in dentistry; e.g., amalgam, gold alloys, cements, porcelain, plastics, and denture material's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| root canal filling materials | Materials placed inside a root canal for the purpose of obturating or sealing it. The materials may be gutta-percha, silver cones, paste mixtures, or other substances. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dental impression materials | Substances or combinations of substances used for making a negative reproduction or impression of the teeth and oral structures for the purpose of producing restorations, prostheses, and dentures, including elastomeric materials, dental plasters, metallic oxide pastes, hydrocolloids, silicone base materials, polyethers, polysulfides, and duplicating compounds. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dental materials | Materials used in the production of dental bases, restorations, impressions, prostheses, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| teaching materials | Instructional materials used in teaching. (12 Dec 1998) |
| library materials | Print and non-print materials collected, processed, and stored by libraries. They comprise books, periodicals, pamphlets, reports, microforms, maps, manuscripts, motion pictures, and all other forms of audiovisual records. (harrod, the librarians' glossary, 4th ed, p497) (12 Dec 1998) |
| low-activation materials | <radiobiology> In fission reactors, one is forced to deal with the radioactive byproducts of the fission process, but in fusion reactors one generally has a choice of what materials to expose to neutrons produced by the fusion process. A major problem for fusion reactors is developing materials (such as for the reactor vacuum vessel structure) which can be exposed to high levels of neutron bombardment without becoming permanently radioactive. Candidate structural materials which have relatively low induced radiactivation (generally relative to stainless steel) are known as low-activation materials, these include titanium, vanadium, and silicon-carbide. (09 Oct 1997) |