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dentition

DEFINITIONS OF: dentition

1

n the eruption through the gums of baby teeth

Synonyms:
odontiasis, teething
Types:
precocious dentition
teething at an earlier age than expected
Type of:
development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

n the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal

Synonyms:
teeth
Types:
primary dentition
dentition of deciduous teeth
secondary dentition
dentition of permanent teeth
Type of:
set
a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
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