Restorative Art Vocabulary

Abrasions

Antemortem injuries resulting from friction of the skin against a firm object resulting in the removal of the epidermis.

Abscess

A localized collection of pus.

Absorption

Process of taking in; a color object absorbs certain rays of light which illuminates it while other rays are reflected.

Abut

Bluntly adjoin another structure.

Acetone

Dimethyl ketone; a colorless liquid which is used to remove scabs, a solvent for wax, or as a stain remover.

Achromatic Color

A color not found in the visible spectrum;

Acquired Facial Markings

Those develloped throughout your lifetime, as a result of repetitious use of certain muscles.

Additive Method

Process of mixing colored lights on a surface whereby the wave lengths of each are combined; adding of two or more lights together to create another light.

Adhesive

Sticking or adhering closely; a substance which may be applied in order to sustain contact of two surfaces.

After-image

Psychological; visual impression remaining after the stimulus has been removed.

Airbrush

A kind of pressured atomizer for spraying liquid paint of cosmetic upon a surface.

Alopecia Areata

A condition in which hair is lost from some or all areas of the body.

Alveolar Prognathism

Sockets of the teeth protrude.

Amputate

Cut off a limb; dismember.

Analogous

Two or more hues which have the same hue in common, In color.

Anatomical Guides

Descriptive references for locating anatomical structures by means of the anatomical structures which are known.

Anatomical Position

The position of the body standing erect, arms to the side of the body, and the palms of the hands are turned outward (forward).

Anchor

A material or technique employed to secure tissues or restorative materials in a fixed position.

Angle

Angulus.

Angulus

A sharp turn formed by the meeting of two borders or surfaces.

Angle of the Mandible

Angle formed by junction of the posterior edge of the ramus of the mandible and the inferior surfaces of the body of the mandible.

Angle of Projection

The degree from the vertical at which the surface(s) of a prominent feature projects.

Angulus Oris Eminence

The small, convex prominence, lateral to the end of the line of lip closure of the mouth.

Angulus Oris Sulcus

The groove at each end of the line of closure of the mouth.

Antemortem

Before death.

Anterior

Before or in front of; refers to the abdominal side of the body.

Anterior Nares

External nostril openings.

Antihelix

Inner rim of the ear.

Antitragus

Small eminence obliquely opposite the tragus, located on the superior border of the lobe of the ear.

Aperture

An opening.

Aqueous

Watery, prepared with water as a solvent.

Aqueous Humor

The clear, thin alkaline fluid which fills the anterior chamber of the eyeball.

Aquiline

Curved; a nose which has a “hook” as seen from a profile view.

Arch

Any structure of a curved or bow-like outline.

Areolar

Containing minute interspaces in a tissue.

Armature

Framework; a material, generally of pliable metal or wood, employed to create a frame of support for a wax restoration.

Aspiration

Draw out liquids or gases by means of suction.

Asymmetry

Lack of symmetry or proportion; similarity without identity.

Bandage

Sheet-cotton, gauze, or other material used in dressing wounds or wrapping a structure.

Base

The first applied cream or cosmetic; the vehicle in cosmetics.

Basic pigment

One of the four hues corresponding to the pigments of the skin as white, yellow, red, and brown.

Basket-Weave suture

A network of stitches employed to cross the borders of a cavity or excision, used to anchor fillers and to sustain the tissues in their proper position.

Beard Area

The area of the lips, cheeks, chin, and neck which has hair growth.

Bilateral

Refers to two sides.

Bilateral Silhouette

Referring to an inferior or superior view, which allows comparison of two sides of an object or facial feature.

Black

Achromatic, absence of illumination in light.

Blanch

To whiten by removing color; to make pale.

Bleach

To grow to become pale or blanched; a chemical which lightens a skin discoloration.

Bleed

A color which escapes at the edge of a mixture; unmixed.

Blend

To mixing or intermingling of a color (or colors) smoothly; to make a gradual change from one color to another.

Blister

A thin vesicle on the skin containing a watery matter.

Blotched

Having relatively large patches of color somewhat different from the rest of the coloring.

Blonde

Light yellowish color, usually describes hair color.

Bridge

A raised support as: the arched portion of the nose which is supported by the nasal bones and a structure or span connecting two pans of a mutilated bone.

Bronze

A brown or copper-like color.

Brown

The color of tanned leather.

Brilliance

Brightness; the lightness or darkness of a color, quality of light.

Brunette

Dark brown or black color, usually describes hair color.

Bruise

Ecchymosis.

Ecchymosis

An injury caused by a blow without laceration; a contusion.

Buccal Cavity

The space between the lips and the gums and teeth; the vestibule of the oral cavity.

Buccal Depressions

The shallow concavities of the cheeks, natural on some persons, which extend obliquely downward from below either the medial or lateral margins of the cheekbones.

Buccinator muscle

Compresses the cheek, retracts the angle of the mouth.

Bucco-Facial Sulcus

The vertical furrow of the cheek.

Buck teeth

Teeth which jut out; may occur either with or without protrusion of the gums and may occur in either or both the maxilla and the mandible.

Burns

To oxidize or to be oxidized by fire or equivalent means; the tissue reaction or injury resulting from application of heat, extreme cold, caustics, radiation, friction, or electricity.

First degree burn

A white plaque and minor pain at the site of injury. These burns only involve the epidermis; Sunburns.

Erythema

A term for skin redness or rash caused by various factors such as infections, allergies, heat or radiation.

Second degree burn

Manifest as erythema with superficial blistering of the skin. Involve the superficial (papillary) dermis and may also involve the deep (reticular) dermis layer.

Third degree burn

Occurs when the epidermis is lost with damage to the subcutaneous tissue, these burns will result in scarring and may require grafting.

Fourth degree burn

Damage to muscle, tendon, and ligament tissue, thus result in charring and catastrophic damage of the hypodermis leaving exposed bone tissue. Often result in death.

Cake

A compressed mass of powder.

Cancer

Any benign or malignant tumor.

Carbolic Acid

Phenol; colorless crystals, liquefied by water which is an antiseptic/disinfectant and dries moist tissues and bleaches discolored tissue.

Carmine

A crimson or purplish-red color.

Carotene

The yellow pigment of the skin.

Cartilage

The gristle or white elastic substance attached to the ends of bones and forming parts of structures such as the septum of the nose and the framework of the ear.

Cast

Any object which has been made from a mold, the positive reproduction obtained from a negative impression.

Caustic

A chemical capable of drying tissues by searing.

Cavity

A hallow place or hollowed out space.

Cement

Any substance used for making two surfaces adhere to each other such as the tips or the eyelids or the margins of an incision.

Charred

Reduce to carbon; the state of tissues destroyed by burning.

Chroma

Color intensity of purity; synonym for intensity.

Chromatic color

A color having hue, as one related to a color of the visible spectrum.

Cilia

Eyelashes, the fringe of hair edging the eyelids.

Collodion

A clear syrup-like liquid which evaporated to leave a contractile white film; employed as a liquid sealer.

Colloid

A suspension of pigments in a liquid vehicle so bound together there is no separation of particles.

Color

A property of material objects, including sources of light, by which they are visually distinguished as possessing the quantities of redness, brownness, greenness, greyness, etc.

Colorant

Substance used to produce the color of objects as dyes, pigments, inks, paints, etc.

Colored light

Illumination of an identifiable hue.

Color filter

Colored glass, gelatin, or other substances which transmits light of certain wave-lengths and absorbs the others.

Color wheel

A circle in which the primary, secondary, and intermediate hues (colors) are arranged in orderly intervals.

Columna Nasi

The medial partition between the nostrils.

Complements

Opposite colors on a color wheel.

Complexion

The color and texture of the skin, especially of the face.

Component

Forming a part or ingredient.

Compound

Composed of two, three, or all of the four basic pigments.

Compound fracture

Fractured bone part pierces the skin.

Compress

A pad of gauze or absorbent cotton saturated with water or a chemical placed under or upon tissues in order to preserve, bleach, dry, constrict tissues or reduce swelling.

Concave/ Concavity

Having s spherically depressed or hollow surface.