buccal
/ˈbʌkəl/
buccal adjective: of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.
Adjective
buccal (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.
- buccal surface of the molars
- buccal branch of the facial nerve
- Of, relating to, or lying in the mouth.
- buccal cavity
- Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.
- supralaryngeal, not laryngeal or glottal.
buccal meaning in Tamil
buccal in Tamil
- வாய், வாய்க்குரிய, வாய்சார்ந்த, கன்ன, அக்குள் நரம்பு
Examples of buccal in a sentence
- The buccal mass in milacids is spheroidal, and contains an oxygnathic jaw.
- The buccal crown is present in most decapodiforms but absent from all octopodiforms.
- The feeding cavity should remain designated as a prostomial cavity, rather than the adoral, or buccal, cavity.
Synonyms of buccal
Origin of buccal
From Latin bucca (“the cheek”) + -al. By surface analysis, bucc- + -al.
Words formed from buccal
- alveolobuccal
- anterobuccal
- axiobuccal
- buccal cavity
- buccal fat extraction
- buccal fat removal
- buccalization
- buccalize
- buccally
- buccal mass
- buccal nerve
- buccal pit
- buccal pumping
- buccalwards
- bucco-
- cerebrobuccal
- cervicobuccal
- circumbuccal
- distobuccal
- dorsobuccal
- extrabuccal
- gingivobuccal
- infrabuccal
- intrabuccal
- ipsilateralbuccal
- mesiobuccal
- mesobuccal
- midbuccal
- nasobuccal
- nonbuccal
- occlusobuccal
- orobuccal
- parabuccal
- peribuccal
- postbuccal
- posterobuccal
- prebuccal
- suprabuccal
- transbuccal
Phrases with buccal
Words that rhyme with buccal
Questions about buccal
- What does buccal mean?
- Buccal means of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.
- What is buccal in Tamil?
- Buccal in Tamil is வாய், வாய்க்குரிய, வாய்சார்ந்த. See Buccal meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is buccal?
- Buccal is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce buccal?
- Buccal is pronounced /ˈbʌkəl/.
Words near buccal in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: buccal (page history and authors); buccal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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