DENTITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dentition mean? 

• DENTITION (noun)
  The noun DENTITION has 2 senses:

1. the eruption through the gums of baby teeth

2. the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal

  Familiarity information: DENTITION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENTITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The eruption through the gums of baby teeth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

dentition; odontiasis; teething

Hypernyms ("dentition" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dentition"):

precocious dentition (teething at an earlier age than expected)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

dentition; teeth

Hypernyms ("dentition" is a kind of...):

set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)

Meronyms (members of "dentition"):

tooth (hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dentition"):

primary dentition (dentition of deciduous teeth)

secondary dentition (dentition of permanent teeth)

Holonyms ("dentition" is a part of...):

mouth; oral cavity; oral fissure; rima oris (the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge)

 Context examples 

A system used to quantitate and illustrate the current state of a person's dentition.

(Decayed, Missing, and Filled Teeth Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The signs and symptoms vary significantly and include death in utero, failure to thrive, premature loss of deciduous teeth, early loss of the adult dentition, hypercalcemia, osteomalacia, skeletal defects, renal stones, and movement disorders.

(Hypophosphatasia, NCI Thesaurus)