incisor

How To Use incisor In A Sentence

• Generally, the front, incisor and canine teeth have one canal, premolars have two canals and the back molar teeth have three.
• The chief limitation on the number of fossil species studied was the rarity in museum collections of skulls with complete dentition, especially incisors.
• Not too surprisingly, it had broad upper incisors and chisel-shaped lower incisors.
• All animals in this order lack incisor and canine teeth, but they may have numerous simple molars in the backs of their jaws.
• The latter (Fig. 17) comprise four incisors, two canines, four small grinders, called premolars or false molars, and six large grinders, or true molars, in each jaw -- making thirty-two in all. On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
• Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats.
• During gnawing, as the incisors grind against each other, they wear away the softer dentine, leaving the enamel edge as the blade of a chisel.
• Generally, the front, incisor and canine teeth have one canal, premolars have two canals and the back molar teeth have three.
• Rodents and lagomorphs are prime examples of breeders among mammals and have enormous incisors for their body size.
• The labial area of incisors was calculated from these measures as an approximating rectangle, and the labial area of canines as an approximating right triangle.