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Definition of Dental plate

1. Noun. A dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dental Plate

Literary usage of Dental plate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"In view of these considerations, we are constrained to rule that a celluloid dental plate is not an infringement of the Cummings patent. ..."

2. Chimæroid Fishes and Their Development by Bashford Dean (1906)
"One is inclined to look upon the anlage of a dental plate as the product of a single ... As already noted, the entire dental plate is finally formed of a ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"In all cases the lower dental plate is vertically deeper than the upper, and rises into a prominent beak anteriorly. It is also characterized by having a ..."

4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"The nature of the foreign body was as follows: In 17 cases the foreign substance was a dental plate; 13 recovered and 4 died : in 6 the substance was a coin ..."

5. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1881)
"Celluloid is not an equivalent for the material which the patent makes essential to the invention, and in the use of it for a dental plate, the process ..."

6. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"The latter bones meet in a median suture in front, and each bears a large triangular dental plate (rf), with radiating ridges. The vomerine cartilage (Vo) ..."

7. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1901)
"Coronal contour of upper dental plate uniformly arched from side to side, ... lower dental plate less curved antero-posteriorly than the upper, and slightly ..."

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