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Definition of Imbrication
1. Noun. Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles).
Generic synonyms: Covering
Derivative terms: Imbricate, Imbricate, Overlap
Definition of Imbrication
1. n. An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.
Definition of Imbrication
1. Noun. a set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish ¹
2. Noun. (context: medicine) overlapping of layers of tissue in wound closure or correctional surgery ¹
3. Noun. (geology) a sedimentary deposition in which small, flat stones are tiled in the same direction so that they overlap. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imbrication
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Imbrication
1. The operative overlapping of layers of tissue in the closure of wounds or the repair of defects. Origin: see imbricate (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbrication
Literary usage of Imbrication
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sense of Touch in Mammals and Birds: With Special Reference to the by Walter Aubrey Kidd (1907)
"Distal imbrication found on terminal phalanges of all digits, and two middle ...
Distal imbrication on two of eminences at bases of digits and on thenar and ..."
2. The Life of the Pleistocene Or Glacial Period: As Recorded in the Deposits by Frank Collins Baker (1920)
"imbrication of Drift Sheets Fortunately, the different drift sheets are imbricated
... Diagram to illustrate superposition and imbrication of drift sheets ..."
3. The Prevention of Dental Caries and Oral Sepsis by Henry Percy Pickerill (1919)
"CHAPTER VIII THE ENAMEL SURFACE: ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE imbrication LINES
THAT the imbrication lines are not artifact or acquired is proved by the ..."
4. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"... centres of dispersion—Enclosed driftless areas—Cordilleran glacier—Inland ice
of Greenland—imbrication of the drift series—Constituents of drift-deposit ..."
5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"ON imbrication OF THE PAPILLARY RIDGES IN MAN. By WALTER KIDD. THE papillary
ridges on the palmar and plantar surfaces in man are arranged like the ridges ..."
6. Fishes of the Perch Family by William Jardine, Izaak Walton (1861)
"there is no imbrication at all, and the edges meet like plates or the flags of
a pavement. But one of the more remarkable contrivances for holding them in ..."
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