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Definition of Milk tooth

1. Noun. One of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children).

Definition of Milk tooth

1. Noun. Any tooth of the first set of teeth of young people (or livestock.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Milk tooth

1. A tooth of the first set of teeth, comprising 20 in all, that erupts between the mean ages of 6 and 28 months of life. Synonym: dens deciduus, baby tooth, deciduous dentition, dens lacteus, first dentition, milk tooth, primary dentition, primary tooth, temporary tooth. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Milk tooth

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 (1890)
"... aide of) each milk tooth, they are ten in number in each jaw. sod, ... passes through a hoi* i& tie jaw immediately behind the corresponding milk tooth. ..."

2. An Italian and English Dictionary with Pronunciation and Brief Etymologies by August Hjalmar Edgren, Giuseppe Bico, John Lawrence Gerig (1901)
"milk-tooth ; ADJ. : pertaining to milk- tooth, ... M. : milk-tooth, -tante, ADJ.: suckling (nursing, Eng.f ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"As already stated, the germ of each milk tooth is a special thickening of the " free " edge of the common dental germ or dental lamina. ..."

4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Allen Thomson, George Dancer Thane (1882)
"<* confined, the permanent sac is at length found at some distance below ana <*biod the milk-tooth ; the sac for the permanent tooth acquiring at lu ..."

5. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"To permanent tooth ; en'plp. enamel-pulp of milk-tooth; these additional layers are added until the crown of the tooth becomes fully developed. ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1841)
"It is even possible for the completely carious milk tooth to be thrust out by the secondary ... But when caries has attacked the milk tooth at an early age, ..."

7. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science; Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1874)
"As the alveolus of a new tooth becomes gradually augmented, the septum between it and that of the corresponding milk tooth is absorbed, and disappears. ..."

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