Definition of Impressions

1. Noun. (plural of impression) ¹

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Definition of Impressions

1. impression [n] - See also: impression

Medical Definition of Impressions

1. The first step in making a model of your teeth. You bite into a container filled with algenate, and the algenate hardens to produce a mold of your teeth. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impressions

impression area
impression compound
impression for costoclavicular ligament
impression material
impressionability
impressionable
impressional
impressiones digitatae
impressionism
impressionisms
impressionist
impressionistic
impressionistically
impressionists
impressionless
impressions
impressions for cerebral gyri
impressions of oesophagus
impressive
impressive aphasia
impressively
impressiveness
impressment
impressments
impressor
impressors
impresst
impressure
impressures
imprest

Literary usage of Impressions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science of Fingerprints: Classification and Uses (1988)
"Latent impressions, regardless of the area of the ridges present, are of the greatest importance to the criminal investigator as identification of them may ..."

2. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"It cannot be copied. any one of the impressions of sense, for then it would be a distinct impression.. It cannot be a ' compound impression,' for such ..."

3. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Impressions must be received from the outer world, but the important question now is, What will be done with these impressions in the inner nervous system, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"Maternal Impressions : A Consideration of the E feet of Mental ... The chief point of interest is the connection between impressions strictly mental, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Volcanic dust falling in water forms an admirable matrix. Impressions of plants constitute the bulk of the objects with which the ..."

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