Definition of Dentitions

1. Noun. (plural of dentition) ¹

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Definition of Dentitions

1. dentition [n] - See also: dentition

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentitions

dentirostral
dentiscalps
dentist
dentist's drill
dentist's practice patterns
dentist-patient relations
dentistical
dentistlike
dentistries
dentistry
dentists
dentition
dentitional
dentitionally
dentitions
dentize
dentized
dentizes
dentizing
dentoalveolar
dentoalveolar abscess
dentoalveolar joint
dentode
dentogingival lamina
dentoid
dentolegal
dentolingual
dentoliva

Literary usage of Dentitions

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

1. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"Usually Mammals have two distinct sets of teeth developed, the milk- and permanent dentitions, but sometimes there is only one, and accordingly we ..."

2. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"Of the First and Second Dentitions.—As teeth are required before the jaw-bones have attained their full growth, and yet are organs incapable of enlarging ..."

3. A System of oral surgery: Being a Treatise on the Diseases and Surgery of by James Edmund Garretson (1884)
"3d. Germs developing in positions where their product must remain encysted. 4th. The production of supernumerary teeth. 5th. Third dentitions. 6th. ..."

4. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1894)
"Mammalian Dentitions. AT another page will be found a paper giving an account of recent researches and speculations as to the origin of mammalian teeth, ..."

5. A Text-book of Operative Dentistry by Thomas Fillebrown (1889)
"THE DECIDUOUS AND PERMANENT Dentitions. Man, in common with most mammals, is provided with two sets of teeth, known as the deciduous and the permanent set. ..."

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