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Definition of Tooth enamel
1. Noun. Hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth.
Generic synonyms: Solid Body Substance
Group relationships: Crown
Derivative terms: Enamel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tooth Enamel
Literary usage of Tooth enamel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Dentistry by Joseph Head (1917)
"CHAPTER III A STUDY OF tooth enamel AND SALIVA DENTIFRICES AND MOUTH-WASHES IN
THEIR RELATION TO MOUTH HYGIENE Enamel Softening and Hardening. ..."
2. A Manual of Normal Histology and Organography by Charles Hill (1914)
"These epithelial processes or sacs are known as enamel organs and develop directly
into the tooth enamel. A little later, during the third month, ..."
3. Teeth & Health: How to Lengthen Life and Increase Happiness by Proper Care by Thomas J. Ryan, Edwin Frederick Bowers (1921)
"Sugar in itself Does not Destroy tooth enamel. Yet sugar and fruit acids, in
themselves—and apart from their products of fermentation—have no ill effect ..."
4. Technic and scope of cast gold and porcelain inlays with a chapter on by Herman E. S. Chayes (1918)
"... porcelain is infinitely harder in texture and resistance than the natural
tooth enamel, and so under the stress of mastication the latter will suffer by ..."
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