(a.) Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Concurrently the pointed spines become scale-like and serrated.
(2) Compared with conventional mechanical lithotripsy with serrated, jawed instruments, electrohydraulic lithotripsy is a safe, easy to learn and effective technique for treating bladder stones.
(3) When it's serving time, use a good serrated knife to saw cleanly through the rhubarb.
(4) AD evoked by stimulation of the hippocampus (long duration discharges of slow serrated waves) differed characteristically from AD following stimulation of the VMD (short duration spike and wave complexes).
(5) The cemented pins were serrated and plain and the cements used were: (1) ZOE, (2) zinc phosphate, (3) glass ionomer, and (4) polycarboxylate.
(6) The lumen of the cisterna contains a serrated layer of dense material referred to as the intracisternal lamina.
(7) The innermost layer is characterized by numerous serrations, the tips of which project into the lumen of the capsule.
(8) Esophageal radiologic findings showed a serrated type shadow defect 6 cm in diameter at the middle thoracic esophagus.
(9) Specially designed threaded and serrated posts were machined in precious metal.
(10) Comparison of a first group of 23 patients submitted to venous thrombectomy alone with 102 patients protected by filters or serrated clips shows a drastic decrease in lethal pulmonary embolism postoperatively.
(11) Vented parallel-sided, serrated posts cemented into matching precision channels provide excellent retentive strength; however, they do not offer significant resistance to rotational forces.
(12) A serrated suction tip with a variety of diameters and serrations has been developed for the microsurgical removal of tumors.
(13) The InS is formed in four steps; cell aggregation (19 days postconception and one day postpartum), formation of bone extensions and collagen fiber bundles (4 and 7 days postpartum), modification of the orientation of these fiber bundles (14 days postpartum), and formation of the serrated suture and fiber bundles with regular orientation (21, 30 and 60 days postpartum).
(14) Klein has now worked her serrated humor into a debut collection of autobiographical essays, titled You’ll Grow Out Of It , published in the US this week.
(15) Cast gold, parallel-sided, serrated post and cores were cemented in extracted teeth.
(16) Microscopically, the thickened areas consisted of abundant acellular collagen fibers containing numerous elastinophilic, thick, serrated fibers and globules, identical with the elastofibroma fibers seen in elastofibroma dorsi.
(17) A serrated, "corkscrew" pattern was present and corresponded well to the perivascular fibrosis noted histologically.
(18) Class 3 units responded maximally to pinch with serrated forceps but also were activated by light touch and pressure.
(19) The sinuses of smooth contour are usually smaller than those with serrated contour, and in case of the first ones, the left one is missing.
(20) Nociceptive stimulus was applied to the skin of adult cats by pinching with a serrated forceps or by radiant heat with Pain meter.
Tooth
Definition:
(n.) One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food.
(n.) Fig.: Taste; palate.
(n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card.
(n.) A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.
(n.) One of several steps, or offsets, in a tusk. See Tusk.
(n.) An angular or prominence on any edge; as, a tooth on the scale of a fish, or on a leaf of a plant
(n.) one of the appendages at the mouth of the capsule of a moss. See Peristome.
(n.) Any hard calcareous or chitinous organ found in the mouth of various invertebrates and used in feeding or procuring food; as, the teeth of a mollusk or a starfish.
(v. t.) To furnish with teeth.
(v. t.) To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw.
(v. t.) To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
(2) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(3) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(4) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(5) In the aetiology the Periodontitis apicalis and wounds after tooth extractions are in the highest position.
(6) It is of special interest because it presented as a periapical pathosis associated with a nonvital tooth and emphasizes the value of routine histopathologic examination of tissue.
(7) An 11-year clinical and radiographic follow-up of an avulsed tooth, replanted within 15 minutes, has been presented.
(8) It has been 40 years since the first community in the United States added a regulated amount of fluoride to its public water supply to prevent tooth decay.
(9) The odontogenic origin of ameloblastomas is based largely on the similarity in histologic appearance between the tumor and the developing tooth organ.
(10) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(11) The primary aim of future work must still be directed toward preventing the formation of a gap between the restoration and the tooth.
(12) This experiment is to observe the effect of pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) on orthodontic tooth movement of guinea pigs through transmission electron microscope (TEM).
(13) By scoring every section of a tooth in this way, an overview was obtained of the location of all caries lesions in the occlusal surface.
(14) In order to clarify the development of mandibular movements associated with growth and development of the stomatognathic system, we compared the mandibular movements of children with normal occlusion at different Hellman's dental age between IIA and IIIB, during tooth tapping movements using the following 7 different kinds of frequency; ad lib.
(15) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
(16) Noxious conditioning stimulation of a tooth led to a temporary decrease of the threshold for the jaw-opening reflex elicited from a contralateral or adjacent tooth; only conditioning stimulation at an intensity producing a marked arousal reaction was effective in this respect.
(17) The tooth also gave a positive response to pulp-testing procedures, even though no new tissue could be demonstrated histologically.
(18) In eight consecutive patients referred to the University of Queensland Dental School for investigation of tooth surface loss, six had no measurable quantities of resting whole saliva, four had low values for stimulated saliva flow rates, and only two patients had buffer capacities within the normal range.
(19) (a) unaltered tooth, (b) access preparation, (c) instrumentation, (d) obturation, and (e) MOD cavity preparation; or 2.
(20) Probit analysis was used to derive the median age of tooth emergence.