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Definition of Carnassial tooth
1. Noun. The last upper premolar and first lower molar teeth of a carnivore; having sharp edges for cutting flesh.
Medical Definition of Carnassial tooth
1. A tooth adapted to shear flesh; the last upper premolar or first lower molar tooth of certain carnivores. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnassial Tooth
Literary usage of Carnassial tooth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1907)
"The lower carnassial tooth (Plate I., fig. 1) forms a particularly suitable object
for discriminating the various species of cats from one another ; and as ..."
2. Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to by William Bateson (1894)
"286. case the extra tooth stood internally to the carnassial tooth, extending
from the level of the middle of the carnassial tooth to the level of the ..."
3. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1885)
"... of a posterior bluntly-tuberculated lobe (upper carnassial tooth). The lower
carnassial tooth is always the first molar, while the upper is the last ..."
4. A Manual of Dental Anatomy, Human and Comparative by Charles Sissmore Tomes (1890)
"In the lower jaw the first true molar or carnassial tooth has a well-marked blade,
which articulates with the blade of the upper carnassial tooth ..."
5. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"The latter do not possess the carnassial tooth (see page 551) and their ...
carnassial tooth = ~, premolars in front more or less sharp- pointed and ..."
6. The Bone Caves of Ojcow in Poland by Ferdinand Roemer (1884)
"Length of the carnassial tooth, twenty-two millimetres. Height of the under jaw
below the carnassial, twenty-three millimetres. ..."
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