Medical Definition of Onlay
1. 1. A metal (usually gold) cast restoration of the occlusal surface of a posterior tooth or the lingual surface of an anterior tooth, the entire surface of which is in dentin without side walls; retention in the anterior tooth is by pins and in the posterior by pins and/or boxes in retentive grooves in the buccal and lingual walls. 2. A graft applied on the exterior of a bone. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onlay
Literary usage of Onlay
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. France by John Edward Courtenay Bodley (1898)
"onlay d'Armont, the father of ... ('onlay. Tin- modern hearers of titles who
swarm in the land are also ..."
2. Ornament & Its Application: A Book for Students, Treating in a Practical Way by Lewis Foreman Day (1904)
"LEATHER onlay WITH STITCHED OUTLINE. wings, and other such detail. ... This particular
piece of embroidery illustrates yet another step in onlay. ..."
3. Ornament & Its Application: A Book for Students, Treating in a Practical Way by Lewis Foreman Day (1904)
"LEATHER onlay WITH STITCHED OUTLINE. wings, and other such detail. ... This particular
piece of embroidery illustrates yet another step in onlay. ..."
4. Technic and scope of cast gold and porcelain inlays with a chapter on by Herman E. S. Chayes (1918)
"The second cut, removal of the mesial wall, to provide for the onlay part of the
inlay 122 142. The third cut. The removal of the distal wall to provide for ..."
5. The Holy Bible by Canadian Bible Society (1851)
"... neither yesterday, nor (onlay ! 37 And when the lad was come to the place of
the arrow which Jona- than had shot, Jonathan cried alter the lad, ..."
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