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temporary,
adj pertaining to the interim treatment used to protect a patient between appointments.
temporary base,
temporary prosthesis,
temporary stopping,
n See stopping, temporary.
temporary superstructure,
n a prosthodontic appliance (removable or fixed) that is used, often immediately postoperatively, as a transitional appliance either for cosmetics or splinting, or both.

temporary
interim; for a short time only.

temporary dentition
the temporary or first set of teeth in animals with diphyodont dentition. See also deciduous teeth.
temporary environment factors
e.g. rain, drought, heat.
temporary registration
registration to practice under local legislation but for a limited period only. A procedure used to permit a candidate for full registration to obtain some practice experience.


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But this temporariness of cabinets should be no excuse for inaction.
In a corporate environment increasingly prone to a state of what Golembiewski calls "permanent temporariness," OD has become an increasingly powerful tool to use in increasing the amount of responsible freedom workers must have to make choices that will allow them to not only cope but thrive.
Hence, Promenade articulates what a monument for the end of the twentieth century must do: It rejects the heroic and the hubristic by turning to strategies of repetition, transparency, and temporariness.
 
 
 
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