(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.
Toothless
Definition:
(a.) Having no teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical specifications: On a local clinical level, the total toothlessness of the elderly presents as: a muscular hypotomy, a loss of the vertical dimension of occlusion, a marked increase in nasal and oral fissures, a stiffening of the articular structures, a great reduction of osteo-mucus in the residual edges, a spreading of the tongue which invades the oral cavity, a loss of occlusive memory, Bearing on therapy and teaching: good clinical observation, constant reference to the medical services, appropriate surgery prior to denture fitting.
(2) Ministers should resist attempts to give courts a greater role in the revocation of citizenship for terrorism suspects in order to prevent the law becoming “toothless”, a leaked government document says.
(3) It makes the ICC look spineless and toothless.” Ultimately, Libya’s state today is about more than one man, and many feel that the western governments who were eager to get Gaddafi out failed to help Libya stabilise after his death.
(4) "Without targets, Redd becomes toothless," said Peg Putt of the Wilderness Society .
(5) Without him the team's looks "a bit toothless", he says.
(6) Culture site the AV Club dismissed the show as “a dreadful, toothless, dead-eyed slog”.
(7) Its inaction over allegations of widespread phone hacking at the News of the World led it to being branded a "toothless poodle".
(8) Doesn't the hedging unit undertaking prop trading prove the toothlessness of the Volcker rule?
(9) Toothless is an osteopetrotic mutation in the rat characterized by reduced bone resorption, few osteoclasts and failure to be cured by bone marrow transplants from normal littermates.
(10) Writing on the Guardian's website, shadow exchequer minister Owen Smith was sceptical, saying the anti-avoidance measures would be "a toothless tiger".
(11) As for the supposed improvements in the Pacific deal, he said, “It’s the same tired old labor standards we had with George Bush, with a few trinkets added.” In a largely toothless side agreement, Nafta’s three signatories – the United States, Mexico and Canada – targeted child labor, minimum-wage violations and occupational safety problems.
(12) Some had speculated that the Red Devils might be porous at the back, despite conceding only four goals in qualifying, but few predicted that they would be quite so toothless going forward.
(13) As journalist Peter Maass noted , “The agency can take companies to court, but its overworked lawyers don’t really have the time to go the distance against the bottomless legal staff in Silicon Valley.” Maass concluded that the agency was low-tech, toothless – and defensive about work like his.
(14) The number of completely toothless individuals was higher (11.83%) with diabetics than with healthy individuals (2.25%).
(15) Tottenham toothless without Harry Kane and must find another striker Read more Soldado joined Tottenham from Valencia in a then club-record £26m transfer but has arrived at Villarreal for a fee reported to be around £7m.
(16) The policing and crime panel is just a toothless watchdog with no power to intervene.
(17) It has been suggested that the fossil Neandertal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints was so toothless that he would have had to have his food pre-chewed or otherwise prepared for him.
(18) They contributed to their own downfall with defensive mistakes, as Paul Lambert, Villa's manager, ruefully acknowledged, and looked toothless up front, where the lack of goals and Christian Benteke's loss of form are a genuine concern.
(19) California water restrictions have not stopped the sprinklers from flowing Read more Governor Jerry Brown, who has come under fire for imposing a 25% reduction in water use on cities and municipalities but not on farms, signed a relatively toothless law last year that gave the state no power to assign rights to groundwater use.
(20) Jon Stewart, who has taken to the story of the crack-smoking mayor like Ford to the pipe, laughed at the city council's apparent toothlessness when attempting to strip him of his mayoral position: "That's justice, Canadian style," he snorted.