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Definition of Dentition

1. Noun. The eruption through the gums of baby teeth.

2. Noun. The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal.

Definition of Dentition

1. n. The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

Definition of Dentition

1. Noun. The set of natural teeth of an individual ¹

2. Noun. The type, number and arrangement of the normal teeth of an organism or of the actual teeth of an individual ¹

3. Noun. The process of growing teeth; teething ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dentition

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Dentition

1. The teeth in the dental arch, ordinarily used to designate the natural teeth in position in their alveoli. Origin: L. Dentitio This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dentition

dentiphone dentiphones dentiroster dentirostral dentiscalps dentist dentist's drill dentist's practice patterns dentist-patient relations dentistical

dentistlike dentistries dentistry dentists dentition (current term) dentitional dentitionally dentitions dentize dentized

dentizes dentizing dentoalveolar dentoalveolar abscess dentoalveolar joint dentode dentogingival lamina dentoid

Literary usage of Dentition

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"An Inaugural Dissertation on Infantile dentition, to which is annexed a ... This is a well-digested and highly interesting treatise on difficult dentition, ..."

2. A Treatise on the diseases of infancy and childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1890)
"dentition. THE opinion formerly entertained in the profession, ... The first dentition commences at the age of about six months and terminates at the age of ..."

3. Human Physiology by Robley Dunglison (1841)
"The age of infancy extends from birth to the second dentition, ... The one comprises the period between birth and the first dentition,—generally about seven ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The carnivorous type of dentition is shown in its most perfect development among ... The dentition of all the animals of the orden Primate», Carnívora, ..."

5. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science by Robley Dunglison (1856)
"The painful itching of the gums which precedes the appearance of the teeth. dentition. ODES. A suffix, see Eidos. ODEUR, Odour. ..."

6. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"dentition. In all the higher animals the teeth are developed directly from the ... The progress of dentition is not apparently continuous, but after the ..."

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