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Definition of Permanent tooth
1. Noun. Any of the 32 teeth that replace the deciduous teeth of early childhood and (with luck) can last until old age.
Medical Definition of Permanent tooth
1. One of the 32 teeth belonging to the second or permanent dentition; eruption of the permanent teeth begins from the fifth to the seventh year, and is not completed until the seventeenth to the twenty-third year, when the last of the wisdom teeth appears. Synonym: dens permanens, dens succedaneus, second tooth, secondary dentition, succedaneous dentition, succedaneous tooth. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Permanent Tooth
Literary usage of Permanent tooth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... passes through a hoi* i& tie jaw immediately behind the corresponding milk tooth.
Before tie successions! permanent tooth erupts, not only should the ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The sac of each permanent tooth is also connected with the fibrous tissue of the
gum by a slender band or ..."
3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"As the crown of the permanent tooth grows, absorption of these bony partitions
and of ... This is shed or removed, and the permanent tooth takes its place. ..."
4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"<* confined, the permanent sac is at length found at some distance below ana <*biod
the milk-tooth ; the sac for the permanent tooth acquiring at lu ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"... resembles in all respects the true molars, just as the permanent tooth occupying
the same position does in Didelphys and some extinct eocene genera. ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1880)
"... resembles in all respects the true molars, just as the permanent tooth occupying
the same position does in Didelphys and some extinct eocene genera. ..."
7. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"This constitutes the rudiment of the permanent tooth. It commence! in a small
thickening on one side of the parent sac, which gradually becomes more and ..."
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