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Definition of Dentine

1. Noun. A calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth.

2. Noun. Bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth.

Definition of Dentine

1. n. The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

Definition of Dentine

1. Noun. dentin ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dentine

1. dentin [n -S] - See also: dentin

Medical Definition of Dentine

1. The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel. Origin: Cf. F. Dentine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentine

dentiloquy dentils dentin dentin-bonding agents dentin bridge dentin dysplasia dentin globule dentin permeability dentinal dentinal canals

dentinal fluid dentinal sheath dentinal tubules dentinalgia dentine (current term) dentines denting dentinocemental dentinocemental junction dentinoenamel

dentinoenamel junction dentinogenesis dentinogenesis imperfecta dentinoid dentinoma dentins dentinum dentiparous dentiphone

Literary usage of Dentine

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

1. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"Secondary dentine in form analogous to Haversian systems. ... Secondary dentine, with the essential structure of primary dentine, is evidently the most ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"be withdrawn from a tooth which is advancing in calcification into osteo- dentine, because it is permeated through and through by a network of calcifying ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"In their course to the periphery they present two or three curves, and are twisted on themselves in a spiral di ree- premolar: D, dentine; A', ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In a fresh tooth they are not empty, but are occupied by a soft part of the matrix, which is traversed in the usual manner by the dentine tubes. ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"According to some anatomists, the processes of the odontoblasts are also continued into the dentine tubuli. The solid portion of the tooth consists of three ..."

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