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Definition of Tooth socket
1. Noun. A bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth.
Generic synonyms: Socket
Group relationships: Alveolar Process, Alveolar Ridge, Gum Ridge
Definition of Tooth socket
1. Noun. (anatomy) A socket in the jaw in which the roots of teeth are held in the alveolar process of maxilla with the periodontal ligament. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tooth Socket
Literary usage of Tooth socket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Handbook for the Sanitary Troops of the U. S. Army and Navy and by Charles Field Mason (1917)
"Capillary bleeding from a tooth socket is sometimes excessive; plug the cavity
with a narrow strip of gauze, place a compress over the gauze, ..."
2. A Complete Handbook for the Sanitary Troops of the U.S. Army and Navy and by Charles Field Mason (1917)
"Capillary bleeding from a tooth socket is sometimes excessive; plug the cavity
with a narrow strip of gauze, place a compress over the gauze, ..."
3. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"HEMORRHAGE FROM A tooth socket. This can often be checked by holding ice water
or hydrogen peroxide in the mouth. Failing in this, make a cone-shaped pad of ..."
4. Studies in the medicine of ancient India: Part I. Osteology, Or The Bones of by August Friedrich Rudolf Hoernle (1907)
"... or tooth-socket, denotes the alveolar processes. These processes are, in
reality, only portions of the maxillary bones ; but Atreya-Charaka, ..."
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