See Also: denture-bearing area(medicine)
tissue-bearing area(medicine)
stress-bearing area(medicine)
denture-supporting area(medicine)
denture foundation area(medicine)
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bearing down(medicine)
Bearing(medicine)

inventive (iou) and denture-bearing area (medicine)


inventive (iou)



inventive adjective. LME.
[French inventif, -ive or medieval Latin inventivus, formed as INVENT: see -IVE.]
Having the faculty of invention; original, apt, or quick in contriving or devising. Also foll. by of. LME.
G. Greene He had been too inventive; he had to draw the line..between what was real..and unreal.
Characterized by invention; produced by or showing original contrivance. E17.
J. Ruskin Great Art..must be inventive, that is, be produced by the imagination.
inventively adverb M19.
inventiveness noun M17.

denture-bearing area (medicine)


denture-bearing area -->
denture foundation area


That portion of the basal seat which supports the complete or partial denture base under occlusal load.

Synonym: basal seat, denture-bearing area, denture-supporting area, stress-bearing area, supporting area, tissue-bearing area.