(a.) Adapted for cutting; of or pertaining to the incisors; incisive; as, the incisor nerve; an incisor foramen; an incisor tooth.
(n.) One of the teeth in front of the canines in either jaw; an incisive tooth. See Tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(2) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
(3) The roots of the incisor teeth should, if possible, be placed accurately in this zone and a method of achieving this is suggested.
(4) Blood flow changes in the dental pulp of lower canine teeth of mature cats and incisors of mature rats were investigated with simultaneous laser Doppler flowmetry and local 125I-clearance (wash-out) during electrical sympathetic stimulation, efferent stimulation of n. alveolaris inferior (IAN) (cats) and i.a.
(5) Maxillary and mandibular incisors and premolars of three rhesus monkeys were used.
(6) A case history is presented of a 10-year-old patient, who accidentally injured her maxillary central incisor.
(7) The results suggest that there is a general tendency for tooth mortality to be lower in the present survey and this change is particularly noticeable for maxillary incisor and canine teeth.
(8) Erosion was observed on all teeth, but was commonest on the upper incisors, canines and premolars, and severest on palatal surfaces.
(9) The ability to perceive thickness differences between the incisors was more accurate after 1 hour's chewing than normally.
(10) The localization of alkaline phosphatases in dentinogenically active rat incisor odontoblasts was studied by means of subcellular fractionation and electron microscopical histochemistry.
(11) Orthodontic closure of the space from both sides was performed with fixed appliance, leaving the remaining central incisor in the midline.
(12) Monkey incisor teeth were pulpotomized in groups of 10.
(13) Maximal and submaximal bite forces were measured at the incisor and right and left first molar bite positions.
(14) 16 maxillary and mandibular permanent lateral incisors of four dogs aged from 5 to 7 months were immediately replanted without endodontic treatment.
(15) To study tooth development longitudinally, the timing of the beginning of calcification of one maxillary central incisor was assessed from occlusal X-rays taken between the ages of 2 and 18 months in 107 of the above mentioned 131 subjects.
(16) Four weeks after replantation, a more than threefold increase in PBF was measured in premolars with two roots, while PBF in premolars with one root and incisors was consistently reduced to an average of 40% of the controls.
(17) The reproducibility of this surgical technique was demonstrated as well as its usefulness in combination with survey sections for multi-method investigations of rat incisor enamel formation and mineralization.
(18) From each sample was counted the number of odontoclasts appearing on the root surface and measured the volume of the root in the maxillary deciduous incisor.
(19) The results indicate that the tongue-to-teeth contact area of each sound differ from the others, however, it's range is confined within cervical half of lingual surface of incisors and lingual cusps of molars.
(20) GAP-43-like immunoreactivity in developing and mature incisor and canine tooth pulp nerve fibers in the cat was examined with fluorescence immunohistochemistry and pre-embedding immunogold electron microscopy.
Undershot
Definition:
(a.) Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.
(a.) Moved by water passing beneath; -- said of a water wheel, and opposed to overshot; as, an undershot wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Profits undershot analysts' forecasts as weak refining profit margins, higher production costs and output stoppages in Nigeria weighed on its performance.
(2) Relative errors were comparatively larger for very short and very long times-to-collision throughout, where events of the first kind were overshot, the latter ones undershot.
(3) Subjects undershot or overshot the target when opposing or assisting loads were presented, respectively.
(4) Illustration: CBI The CBI’s monthly figures undershot expectations in financial markets.
(5) Silver's model slightly undershot it by having Obama take the election by about 3pt .
(6) This definition is contrasted with situations in which the new viability optimum is undershot.
(7) Serum LDH activity declined to control within 8 hr, while serum CPK undershot controls at 8 hr and returned to the control value by 24 hr.
(8) If an anticipatory saccade was made after reaction times below 75 ms, it frequently undershot the target by more than 20% and was followed by a corrective saccade.
(9) Britain's growth performance has consistently undershot both government and IMF forecasts.
(10) When cells were subjected to hypoosmotic shock they occasionally undershot the new projected density, but the undershoot was not as dramatic as the overshoot seen with hyperosmotic shocks.
(11) The penetrance of the gene could possibly be masked in populations in which undershot jaw occurs.
(12) But it undershot economists' forecasts for 52.6 and was the weakest for four months.
(13) He deliberately allowed the forecast deficit to rise as growth undershot in the early years of the parliament,” said Paul Johnson, the IFS’s director.
(14) On this view, the tree would be so thoroughly hollowed-out that it may no longer be able to support itself.” Artificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods and the rest of us’ Read more Haldane said the increasing automation of the workplace might already be helping to depress wage growth, explaining why inflation has consistently undershot the government’s 2% target.
(15) Even after completion of a corrective saccade following the primary saccade, subjects systematically undershot target direction and overshot target depth, suggesting that visual feedback normally plays an important role in the fine guidance of gaze after the completion of a primary saccade.
(16) "The fourth-quarter GDP figures may have undershot predictions.
(17) The public finances undershot economists’ forecasts in January, but mainly because of a change in a way the Office for National Statistics (ONS) accounts for tax revenues.
(18) Again, that undershot forecasts, which had been for modest growth of 0.2% on the month.
(19) Even stripping out more volatile prices, such as fuel and food, the so-called core measure of inflation undershot expectations in September.
(20) It was above the 50-mark that separates growth from contraction but undershot forecasts of a 52.7 reading in a Reuters poll of economists.