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procline

procline verb: of teeth, to lean forward.

Verb

procline (third-person singular simple present proclines, present participle proclining, simple past and past participle proclined)

  1. (intransitive) Of teeth, to lean forward.
    • In Class II cases the maxillary incisors retrocline and the eruption of teeth in the maxillary buccal segments is directed distally during treatment. In the mandibular arch the lower incisors tend to procline and the teeth in the buccal segments erupt in a more mesial direction.2010, Jayne Harrison, Kathleen O'Donovan, “Orthodontic Dental Nursing”, in Robert S. Ireland, editor, Advanced Dental Nursing, 2nd edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 308
  2. (transitive) To cause (teeth) to lean forward.
    • These curves do have a tendency to procline the incisors so the wires are often tied back (e.g. a wire ligature tied from the molar to a ball hook on the archwire between the lateral incisor and canine) to maintain the arch length and minimise incisor proclination.2010, Jayne Harrison, Kathleen O'Donovan, “Orthodontic Dental Nursing”, in Robert S. Ireland, editor, Advanced Dental Nursing, 2nd edition, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 273

Adjective capitalized: Procline

Procline (not comparable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Proclian.

Forms of procline

third-person singular presentproclines
present participleproclining
past participleproclined
pastproclined

Origin of procline

Borrowed from Latin prōclīnō (“I bend or lean forward”).

From Procl(us) + -ine.

Questions about procline

What does procline mean?
Procline means of teeth, to lean forward.
What part of speech is procline?
Procline can be a verb or an adjective.
What is the past tense of procline?
The past tense of procline is proclined.

Words near procline in the dictionary

  1. Proclian
  2. proclinate
  3. proclinated
  4. proclination
  5. proclinations
  6. procline
  7. proclined
  8. proclines
  9. proclining
  10. proclises
  11. proclisis

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