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Meanings of dentition in English

Portuguese
dentama

The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal.

        dentama

        The eruption through the gums of baby teeth.

              Usage of dentition in English
              1
              And a quirky nature fact about the dentition of a small wallaby.
              Radio NZ
              2
              Infant velociraptor: jaw and complete dentition, so there's no question about identity.
              Jurassic Park
              3
              Between the fifth and sixth years of life the second dentition begins.
              The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mothe...
              4
              Identical twins don't have identical dentition, and environmental factors further indicate differences.
              The cold room
              5
              The only blemish was a Lauren Hutton gap in his upper dentition.
              Fatal Voyage
              6
              In cases of incomplete dentition, the most conservative score was used.
              Resurrecting pompeii
              7
              The dentition included a combination of adult and recently erupted juvenile permanent teeth.
              Resurrecting pompeii
              8
              With nothing left but the waiting, I returned to the dentition.
              Bones on Ice
              9
              The Philosophical Transactions of London contain accounts of dentition at seventy-five and eighty-one.
              Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
              10
              So much for querying Reggie about Spider's sense of haute dentition.
              Spider bones: a novel
              11
              Though there are abrasions and lacerations probably caused by scraping against the dentition.
              Bones of the Lost
              12
              The adult dentition is preceded by a widely different milk dentition.
              The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
              13
              Charlie and Katy were at my side, both flashing copious dentition.
              Devil Bones
              14
              With dentition comes another mode of eating, and sucking is no more serviceable.
              The Mind and Its Education
              15
              The mandible is also very robust and contains a complete dentition.
              The South African
              16
              Thanks to decomp and burning, her face and dentition were history.
              206 Bones
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              Dentition through the time
              Dentition across language varieties
              United States of America
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              United Kingdom
              Less common