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adjectivecrestal (not comparable)
- not comparableThat is situated on, or forms part of, a crest.
Microbial samples and peri-implant crestal bone levels of all implant sites were obtained before, during and after the breakdown period.
2015 October 22, “Evaluation in a Dog Model of Three Antimicrobial Glassy Coatings: Prevention of Bone Loss around Implants and Microbial Assessments”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
nouncrestal (plural crestals)
plural crestals
- biologyA scale located on the crest.
In the arrangement of the crestals Shinisaurus closely resembles Xenosaurus (in which genus, however, the crestals are blunt and resemble ornamental tack heads) […]
1955, Joel Asaph Allen, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, page 15
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