[
UK
/baɪkˈʌspɪd/
]
[ US /baɪˈkəspəd/ ]
[ US /baɪˈkəspəd/ ]
NOUN
- a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars
ADJECTIVE
-
having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth)
bicuspid teeth
bicuspid leaves
How To Use bicuspid In A Sentence
- Some F 2 teeth are truly tricuspid, like those of LF, whereas others are truly bicuspid, as in MZ.
- Contraction of the right and left atria forces blood past the right tricuspid and left bicuspid valves into the right and left ventricles, respectively.
- A score of 2 was given to fully bicuspid dentition, while a score of 3 was given to fully tricuspid dentition, with even cusp heights.
- It differs from _G. nutans_ in being an annual and in having filiform leaves, bicuspidate third glume which is scabrid all over the back and a fourth glume distinctly tricuspidate at the apex. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Behind the canines are the premolars, or bicuspids.
- The overwhelming cause of aortic valve disease in Europe is calcific degenerative disease, and about 2% of the population have congenitally bicuspid aortic valves.
- A few days after my upper left first bicuspid was yanked, my dentist gave me what he calls a flipper, a dead ringer for a real tooth, aged to match the rest of my flawed set. In the Fullness of Time
- The _first glume_ is narrow, linear, membranous, grooved, finely bicuspidate at the apex, with incurved margins and two nerves ending in tubercles below. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Persons born with a bicuspid aortic valve are predisposed to develop aortic stenosis.
- I realized that one of his bicuspids was dead, turning the green-gray of dead teeth.