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Definition of Dentitions
1. dentition [n] - See also: dentition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentitions
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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