A text-formatting language by Brian Reid.

(01 Mar 1994)

1. To write, trace, or mark by making a line with a marker or pointed instrument, as in surveying a dental cast for a removable prosthesis.

2. To form, by instrumentation, negative areas within a master cast to provide a positive beading in the framework of a removable partial denture, or the posterior palatal seal area for a complete denture.

Origin: L. Scribo, pp. Scripto, to write

(05 Mar 2000)

ScrFI modification methylase, scribble, Scribe < Prev | Next > Scribner, Belding, Scribner shunt, SCRIPT

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