supernumerary

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
SN
Pronunciation
/ˌsuːpəˈnjuːmərəri/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. It also raised the supernumerary(SN) City sanitation workers the basic wage.
  2. When the placeman dies, the supernumerary(SN) steps into his shoes.
  3. There are three main classes of cells that accumulate in the body during aging to a supernumerary(SN) degree : fat cells, senescent cells and certain types of immune cells.
  4. Methods X-ray dental film and panoramic pantomogram were used to determine the location of embedded supernumerary(SN) teeth on bases of the geometrical principle of X-ray photography.
  5. To be relegated to a supernumerary(SN) position.

Other meanings of SN