Denture base

Medical Dictionary

denture base n.

  1. The part of a denture that rests on the oral mucus membrane and to which teeth are attached.

  2. The part of a complete or partial denture that rests on the denture foundation and to which teeth are attached.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cite This Source
Explore Dictionary.com
Previous Definition: denture
Next Definition: denture foundation
Words Near: denture base
More from Thesaurus.com
Synonyms and Antonyms for denture base
More from Reference.com
Search for articles containing denture base
More from Dictionary.com Translator
00:10
Denture base is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Dictionary.com Word FAQs

Dictionary.com presents 366 FAQs, incorporating some of the frequently asked questions from the past with newer queries.

Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT