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Definition of Obtundents
1. obtundent [n] - See also: obtundent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obtundents
Literary usage of Obtundents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Dental Association at Its ... Annual Session by American Dental Association (1891)
"Physiological Action of obtundents. PAPER BY LE CUSTER, OF THE SECTION. THIS paper
has been written with a view to making clear and harmonizing a few ..."
2. Dental materia medica and therapeutics by Hermann Prinz (1917)
"LOCAL ANESTHETICS AND obtundents. Local anesthetics (without pain) are agents
which are employed for the purpose of producing insensibility to pain in a ..."
3. Compend of Dental Pathology and Therapetics by Henry H. Burchard (1896)
"Relieving the paroxysms by means of obtundents, and subsequently devitalizing
the pulp. INFLAMMATION OF THE DENTAL PULP. 1. What is inflammation of the pulp ..."
4. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1890)
"Local pain obtundents are offered without number, a few good, but a large majority
of them worse than useless; especially useless are the patent ..."
5. Dominion Dental Journal (1905)
"I think you had better throw these so-called—what do you call them —anesthetics
or obtundents away, and throw them to one side. ..."
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