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Definition of Adult tooth
1. Noun. Any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adult Tooth
Literary usage of Adult tooth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of histology by Alexander A.. Böhm, M. von Davidoff, Gotthelf Carl Huber (1900)
"Structure of the adult tooth.—The adult tooth is made up of three substances—the
enamel, the dentin, and the cementum. The latter covers that part of the ..."
2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1879)
"The great bulk of the adult tooth was made up of cement, osteo-dentine, and of
a substance which Mr Lankester calls globular matter. ..."
3. The Missouri Dental Journal (1870)
"The canal had undergone secondary ossification similar to an adult tooth, with
all the peculiar characteristics of a similar change in the latter, ..."
4. Chemistry of Animal Bodies by Thomas Thomson (1843)
"The following table exhibits the specific gravity of the enamel of various teeth
as determined by my trials: Human temporary tooth, 2'711 Human adult tooth, ..."
5. Zur Bildung der primitiven Choane, des Jacobson'schen Organs und er Stenson by Alexander A. Böhm, Georg Maschke, M. von Davidoff, Gotthelf Carl Huber, Herbert Howard Cushing (1904)
"Structure of the adult tooth.—The adult tooth is made up of three substances—the
enamel, the dentin, and the cementum. The latter covers that part of the ..."
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