dentitionally

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adverb

With regard to dentition.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbdentitionally (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWith regard to dentition.

    The report for 1909 showed that 42 per cent. of the children's months were defective dentitionally.

    1913, The Dental Surgeon, volume 9, page 331
    2 more examples

    However, this may be said of external pressure only when it is applied to an arch that is dentitionally complete.

    1964, Thomas H. Forde, The principles and practice of oral dynamics, page 87

    These features can probably be considered the minimal characteristic complex for the great ape and human clade, and suggest that they were, at least partly, hard-object feeders, dentitionally most similar to later Sivapithecus, Ouranopithecus, Australopithecus and early Homo.

    2011, Mario Vaneechoutte, Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution

Origin

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