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My 12 month old son has a raised ridge-like area running from top to bottom on the front side of his maxillary central incisor.
Mesiodens, or Extra Tooth Dr. Dean Brandon 2007
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A precipitous lane is climbed by the ridge-like steps of an Italian donkey-path; the old town gardens, massively walled, are built in tiers, so that the apple-trees on the higher levels scatter their blossoms on the gardens beneath.
The Way Home 2003
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BARK: Dark grey with scaling woody, conical or ridge-like protrusions, slash yellow, with a strong smell.
Chapter 7 1999
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They have the general appearance of ridge-like projections from the sides of the larynx, but at their edges they are sharp and smooth.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The cortex is greatly increased in area by the presence everywhere of ridge-like _convolutions_, between which are deep but narrow depressions, called _fissures_.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The summit is ridge-like, and excessively sharp; the descent on either side almost precipitous.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Hudson; and it is between the ridge-like elevations of this range and the older Laurentian Hills that we find the valley of the St. Lawrence, in which lie the provinces of Quebec and Ontario.
Canada J. G. Bourinot
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The triangular depression of the superior surface is represented in the inferior surface by a triangular projection, and the ridge-like frog-stay of the upper surface is represented below by a median cleft, the _Median Lacuna_ of the frog.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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Joints club-shaped, 4 in. to 6 in. long, very spiny, the cushions elevated on ridge-like tubercles.
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Joints varying in length from 2 in. to 6 in., not flattened, with ridge-like tubercles, bearing on their points small cushions of very fine bristles and tufts of pale yellowish spines about ½ in. long, and all pointing upwards.
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