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Definition of Secondary dentition
1. Noun. Dentition of permanent teeth.
Medical Definition of Secondary dentition
1. One of the 32 teeth belonging to the second or permanent dentition; eruption of the permanent teeth begins from the fifth to the seventh year, and is not completed until the seventeenth to the twenty-third year, when the last of the wisdom teeth appears. Synonym: dens permanens, dens succedaneus, second tooth, secondary dentition, succedaneous dentition, succedaneous tooth. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secondary Dentition
Literary usage of Secondary dentition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mouth Hygiene and Mouth Sepsisby John Sayre Marshall by John Sayre Marshall (1916)
"ADULT HEAD, SHOWING COMPLETE secondary dentition. (AFTER DR. CRYER) 68 VIII.
CALCIFICATION OF DECIDUOUS AND PERMANENT TEETH 68 IX. SHOWING UNCLEAN MOUTH AND ..."
2. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"... arises whether we have here a primary dentition with only one secondary tooth,
or a secondary dentition with only one tooth of the primary set left. ..."
3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"... arises whether we have here a primary dentition with only one secondary tooth,
or a secondary dentition with only one tooth of the primary set left. ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Thus the earlier theoretical conclusion that the Marsupial dentition " is a
secondary dentition with only one tooth of the primary set left," is proved on ..."
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