Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cusp or point developed on the postero-nternal angle of an upper molar. It arises from the cingulum, but soon takes its place on the crown. See cut under
tooth , 1.
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- noun anatomy A
cusp in the corner of an uppermolar tooth inmammals
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In the daylight morphology (10: 00) only, both strains possess a cluster of several rows of crystalline deposits near the cytoplasmic surface of the hypocone (the southern hemisphere of the dinoflagellate cell) (
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