1. Numerous small rounded projections, often in a row like a string of beads. 2. The rounded elevation along the border of the tissue surface of the major connectors of a maxillary dental prosthesis. 3. Protection of the formed borders of final impressions for a dental prosthesis done by placement of wax sticks or a plaster-pumice combination adjacent to the borders prior to forming the master cast.
- b. of the ribs SYN: rachitic rosary.
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bead·ing 'bēd-iŋ n the beadlike nodules occurring in rickets at the junction of the ribs with their cartilages called also rachitic rosary, rosary
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bead·ing (bēdґing) alternate local constriction and dilatation of a blood vessel so that on an angiograph it resembles a string of beads.Medical dictionary. 2011.