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Definition of Interdigitation
1. n. The state of interdigitating; interdigital space.
Definition of Interdigitation
1. Noun. An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Interdigitation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Interdigitation
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Interdigitation
Literary usage of Interdigitation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essentials of Orthodontia: With Especial Reference to Nomenclature by Van Broadus Dalton (1914)
"Interdigitate and interdigitation have reference to any closure of the buccal
teeth in which the cusps of one denture strike fairly into the occluding sulci ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1891)
"This interdigitation arises for the most part when a series of rivers draining
tracts of country of different lithological character, converge to a common ..."
3. The Vegetation of a Desert Mountain Range as Conditioned by Climatic Factors by Forrest Shreve (1915)
"This carries the Desert upward into the Encinal and carries the Encinal up into
the Forest in such a manner that there is an interdigitation of the ..."
4. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals by St. George Jackson Mivart (1900)
"... plac • between certain bones of the skull where, as we have seen, an
interdigitation of the processes of their irregularly- shaped margins takes place, ..."
5. A Manual of Dissection and Practical Anatomy: Founded on Gray and Gerrish by William Thomas Eckley, Corinne Buford Eckley (1903)
"When the vitreous is turned out a pigment impress around the lens-cup in the
vitreous humor will show this interdigitation.) Iris. ..."
6. Proceedings of the National School of Dental Technics by American Institute of Dental Teachers (1897)
"It is that when the upper and lower teeth have been brought into proper relation
the interdigitation of the cusps of the bicuspids and molars will, ..."
7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"... of up-welling water, and presents another example of the complex " interdigitation "
arising when two surface currents meet each other end on. GENERA! ..."
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