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Sentence Examples The canines are long and sharp, the carnassials are usually well developed, and the incisors are unspecialized. Although the living African rhinos have lost their incisors, the horns are elongated and function as the primary weapon. Gophers are rodents and have large incisors, like squirrels and mice, that are used for gnawing. The sculptures seem like bellicose battleships, flaunting jagged-ribbed fins and sawtooth incisors. In the mandible, there are four incisors, two canines, four premolars, and six molars. Unlike the large cats that have two enlarged canines, marsupial lions had enlarged incisors that were used to stab prey. The teeth most often missing are the third molars, second premolars, and maxillary lateral incisors, and other teeth may be reduced in size. My teeth are as white as the moon, an orderly upper and lower row of molars and incisors with long, sharp fangs, on both the top and the bottom. For years, our Scandinavian cousins put us to shame with their gleaming molars and incisors. The location of early caries is found most often in children's maxillary incisors and first molars. They have a continuous set of teeth between the incisors and the molars called the unicuspids. The lowered position of these surfaces require downward flexion of the rostrum in order to maintain occlusion of upper and lower incisors. As in rodents, canines are absent and a large space separates the incisors and the first cheek tooth. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the teeth is the marked wear on the lingual surfaces of the canines and incisors. On the left side, the sockets from the first and second incisors, the canine, and the two premolars are visible. All but her front incisors are capped with some very red gold, it's either very red gold or it looks coppery. Billy has been left with only eight back teeth and his two front incisors, which dentists say are so badly decayed they will fall out in months. The lower incisors form a comb-like structure that is thought to be used both in grooming and in feeding. Moles have small, sharp incisors and canine teeth that are used for catching and eating grubs and earthworms. The upper lateral incisors may be duplicated and the development of four molars or two supernumerary premolars may also occur. Show More Sentences Not too surprisingly, it had broad upper incisors and chisel-shaped lower incisors. All but her front incisors are capped with some very red-gold, its either very red gold or it looks coppery. An exaggerated fraenum in the centre of the inside upper lip may cause an unsightly central gap between the upper incisors. Megadermatids lack upper incisors, and their large canines have a secondary cusp. All rodents have a single pair of upper and a single pair of lower incisors, followed by a gap, followed by one or more molars or premolars. The normal permanent dentition comprises four incisors, two canines, four premolars, and six molars in each jaw. In the mandible, there are, in front, four incisors, two canines, four premolars, and six molars behind. During gnawing, as the incisors grind against each other, they wear away the softer dentine, leaving the enamel edge as the blade of a chisel. These were impressive-looking beasts easily recognized by their distinctive dentition of intermeshing incisors. The canines are absent or vestigial, and a substantial diastema separates incisors and cheek teeth. The first teeth to erupt are the incisors which appear at around 6-9 months. We recognize four basic kinds of teeth in an individual's jaw, the incisors, canines, premolars, and molars. Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats. Ruminants also lack incisors in the upper jaw, and most lack canines in the upper jaw as well. The lower jawbone of the hippopotamus reveals six incisor teeth, whereas the hippopotamus that survives in Africa has only four incisors. The large, ever growing incisors in both rabbits and rodents do not undergo functional replacement. Rodents and lagomorphs are prime examples of breeders among mammals and have enormous incisors for their body size. Perhaps the strangest dentition is found in the vampire bats, which have enlarged and bladelike incisors and canines, but molars extremely reduced in size and complexity. The persistence occurs most often with the upper canine and the lower second molar, and less often with the upper lateral and lower mesial incisors. It is usually the incisors but the molars can also become deformed. Show More Sentences Our teeth include incisors and canines designed for tearing flesh. The labial area of incisors was calculated from these measures as an approximating rectangle, and the labial area of canines as an approximating right triangle. The bit sits in a part of the horse's mouth called the diastema, which is a section devoid of teeth that lies between the front incisors and the back pre-molars and molars. With increase of soil hardness, digging duration in incisors significantly increased, but dried soil mass dug out by the zokors in each bout reduced. The chief limitation on the number of fossil species studied was the rarity in museum collections of skulls with complete dentition, especially incisors. When you observe the ruminants, he went on, you see that they all lack upper incisors, and they all possess horns or antlers, a four-chambered stomach, and cloven hooves. They differ from rodents in a number of physical characteristics, such as having four incisors in the upper jaw rather than two. They reported that the child had fallen from his bed and he had injured his chin, and that his primary incisors were luxated. The use of gold crowns in more prominent teeth such as incisors is favored in some cultures and discouraged in others. They use their sharp incisors to gnaw food, excavate burrows, and defend themselves. These incisors have thick layers of enamel on the front and little enamel on the back. A gap, or diastema, occurs between the incisors and the cheek teeth in most species. The Sciuromorpha, such as the eastern grey squirrel, have a large deep masseter, making them efficient at biting with the incisors. However, they have an additional pair of incisors in the upper jaw and the two orders have quite separate evolutionary histories. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continuously and must be kept short by gnawing. Eventually, with the development of antlers, the tusks as well as the upper incisors disappeared. This girl is quick to obey, but gracelessly, biting down on the fabric with her incisors all the same. The most common pathologic findings associated with a mesiodens are retention of the adjacent incisors, malposition, and diastema. There are two apparent radiolucencies at the apices of the two mandibular central incisors. She smiled, too, her incisors creeping out from behind her lips. Show More Sentences The teeth of deer are adapted to feeding on vegetation, and like other ruminants, they lack upper incisors, instead having a tough pad at the front of their upper jaw. As the incisors grind against each other, the softer dentine on the rear of the teeth wears away, leaving the sharp enamel edge shaped like the blade of a chisel. Most have large incisors to prevent dirt from flying into their mouth. Macropodids may take small berries or seedheads entirely into the mouth, grip the stalk, and pluck off the seedhead against the upper or lower incisors. Maxillary central incisors, labially and palatally impacted maxillary canines, mandibular canines, premolars, and mandibular molars are covered in separate chapters. Deciduous incisors were procumbent, but di1 had a slight upward curve. In most mammals there are wedge-shaped incisors, a pointy canine, and premolars and molars with bumps and valleys that fit together like a mortar and pestle when you chew. Indeed, the red enamel band of ever-growing incisors of rodents extends across the whole crown of the tooth, including the part enclosed in the alveolous within the jaw. Examples from Classical Literature Owing to the absence of superior incisors in ruminants, the intermaxillary bone presents no alveoli. In respect to their upper teeth, the incisors are small, equal, and have a hind cusp on the cingulum. Its dental formula is peculiar by reason chiefly of the reduction of the lower incisors. Among the Lemurs the incisors are denticulate, and serve to clean the fur in a comb-like fashion. On the mandible the great length of the diastema between the incisors and premolars is a Giraffine characteristic. The lower jaw has quite the appearance of that of a Macropus or Phalanger, with long and forwardly projecting incisors. It is to be distinguished from galago by the fact that the inner incisors are larger than the outer. Inferior incisors, three on each side with an incisiform canine in contact with them. His tusks are his incisors, and they have developed as have almost no other teeth in the mammals. The animal had found the ball, seized it between the incisors, and extracted it. Camper's angle is that included between the auricular foramen, the point of insertion of the upper incisors and the metopic point. The molar formula was complete, but there is some doubt as to the incisors. There are indications of a vestigial second pair of incisors. No postnatal specimens which show deciduous incisors have been examined. In all cases the first upper incisors are large and rootless. After the incisors, the premolars show the greatest number of anomalies. The permanent incisors do not calcify until a year after birth. The canines are larger than the incisors, and the molars have sharp cusps. The canines are greatly developed, and the incisors are small. The incisors indicate the age, but they are not usually liable to disease. Show More Sentences Eight of these were incisors, the ninth being a cuspid tooth. Her incisors were not large, nor was her upper lip long and down-hanging, nor her lower lip protruding. On the incisors they are always to be found on the lingual surface. Undaunted, the 20-year-old charges into the most dangerous moment of the season today, leading again with his incisors. The strong chisel-shaped incisors suggest the Rodents and hyrax. It's one of the very few fleeting moments in which the two aren't viciously gnashing their incisors at one another or flaying shreds of each other's psychic flesh. Find more words! 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