dentition
Syllables: den·ti·tion/dɛnˈtɪʃən/
dentition noun: the set of natural teeth of an individual.
Noun
dentition (countable and uncountable, plural dentitions)
- The set of natural teeth of an individual.
- The type, number and arrangement of the normal teeth of an organism or of the actual teeth of an individual.
- Can a medical man say just exactly from the necessarily hurried examination he must give of the mouth, and without a special dental knowledge, what constitutes a good dentition?2022, Lindsey Fitzharris, The Facemaker, page 42
- An arrangement in an organism or object of projections that resemble teeth.
- As mentioned dentition of bivalves, i.e. teeth and sockets, occur on the vertical portion of the hinge plates of the two valves, which are in contact with each other when the shell is closed.2008, Anis Kumar Ray, Fossils in Earth Sciences, page 165
- The process of growing teeth; teething.
dentition meaning in Tamil and Kannada
dentition in Tamil
- பல் வரிசை அமைப்பு, பல்முளைத்தல், பல் அமைப்பு, பல் அமைவு, பல்லமைப்பு
dentition in Kannada
- ಹಲ್ಲು ಹುಟ್ಟುವುದು, ದಂತಾಂಕುರತೆ, ಹಲ್ಲು ರಚನೆ, ದಂತವಿನ್ಯಾಸ
Examples of dentition in a sentence
- Isolated megadontia in the permanent dentition has been estimated to occur in approximately 1% of patients.
- The dentition of placodonts was very interesting, as they all had large crushing teeth on the palate.
- The palaeoheterodonts are an extant, Ordovician–Recent, group characterised by heterodont to schizodont dentition.
Forms of dentition
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Origin of dentition
From Latin dentītiō (“teething, dentition”).
Words formed from dentition
Words that rhyme with dentition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
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- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about dentition
- What does dentition mean?
- Dentition means the set of natural teeth of an individual.
- What is dentition in Tamil?
- Dentition in Tamil is பல் வரிசை அமைப்பு, பல்முளைத்தல், பல் அமைப்பு. See Dentition meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dentition?
- Dentition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce dentition?
- Dentition is pronounced /dɛnˈtɪʃən/.
- What is the plural of dentition?
- The plural of dentition is dentitions.
Words near dentition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dentition (page history and authors); dentition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dentition (Kannada 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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