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dentition

/den-tish-uhn/US // dɛnˈtɪʃ ən //UK // (dɛnˈtɪʃən) //

牙齿,齿科,牙科,齿形

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the makeup of a set of teeth including their kind, number, and arrangement.
    • : the eruption or cutting of the teeth; teething; odontiasis.

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Examples

  • While the three species boasted distinct dentition and probably had somewhat different diets, it’s not clear what they actually did eat from the shape of their teeth alone, Eberle says.

  • The imperfections of the mouth, resulting of a bad dentition, are stricken away by the application of the interchanging Thooth.

  • Such cases are merely instances of irregularity in the time of dentition, and carry with them no particular significance.

  • Parents ought to carefully attend to the childs second dentition.

  • The generic differences are based upon the comparative lengths of the tail, and upon the dentition.

  • Now these correspondences are the more striking when we bear in mind that a similar dentition is often put to very different uses.