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tooth socket

NOUN
  1. a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth

How To Use tooth socket In A Sentence

  • The left maxilla preserves 13 tooth sockets, which are slightly larger than the premaxillary tooth sockets.
  • The main body of the element comprises a longitudinal bony buttress that supports a very slight sigmoid row containing a minimum of five shallow tooth sockets.
  • Even at first glance, the shape of the four-inch-long bone and the linear arrangement of tooth sockets told us that this was a dentary, or tooth-bearing portion of a lower jaw.
  • The relatively obtuse rostrum terminates almost directly in front of the anteriormost tooth socket.
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