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diastema

NOUN
  1. a gap or vacant space between two teeth

How To Use diastema In A Sentence

  • As in the traversodonts, a large gap - the diastema - separated the incisors from the square cheek teeth (seven on each side).
  • Incisors and canines are absent, but the anterior cheek teeth are enlarged, triangular in cross section, and canine-like. They are separated from the rest of the cheek teeth by a diastema.
  • The bit sits in a part of the horse's mouth called the diastema, which is a section devoid of teeth that lies between the front incisors and the back pre-molars and molars.
  • The dentary was scaled so that the condyle articulated with the glenoid fossa and the lower caniniform occluded with the diastema between the upper first tooth and caniniform.
  • The canines are absent or vestigial, and a substantial diastema separates incisors and cheek teeth.
  • If a horse has a narrower diastema, a smaller or flatter palate, and/or a fat or thick tongue, a thinner bit may be far more comfortable in that horse's mouth than a thick one.
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