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Definition of Incisors
1. incisor [n] - See also: incisor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incisors
Literary usage of Incisors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Both the upper and lower incisors ara regularly curved, the upper slightly more
so than the lower, and, their growth being continuous, should anything 1 ..."
2. Anatomy, descriptive and surgical by Henry Gray (1864)
"The incisors of the upper jaw are altogether larger and stronger than those of
... The incisors of the lower jaw are smaller than the upper: the two central ..."
3. Prosthetic Articulation by George Wood Clapp (1914)
"The depth of underbite to which they may be set, when in this position, is
determined by the degree in which they move forward across the upper incisors, ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Since the upper central incisors are wider than the lower, the other teeth ...
The upper incisors are larger and stronger than the lower, and are directed ..."
5. Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to by William Bateson (1894)
"The evidence is divided into two groups, the first relating to incisors and ...
Specimen having 12 upper incisors and 12 lower incisors belonging to the ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"At about two years and nine months to two years and eleven months the central
permanent incisors will appear, and at full three years of age the outer part ..."
7. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"The deciduous teeth are lost in the order of their acquisition ; the two middle
incisors of both the upper and lower jaws are displaced between the second ..."
8. Lectures on the science of human life by Sylvester Graham (1849)
"In the human head, as we have seen (326), there are thirty-two teeth : eight
incisors, four cuspids or eye teeth, eight bicuspids or small cheek teeth, ..."
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