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"Dentition" Quotes from Famous Books

... peculiarity depends upon a natural variety."** A constant uniformity in the structure and arrangement of the teeth is an important particular in the identification of species; and if any human race were found to deviate materially in its dentition from the rest of mankind, the fact would give rise to a strong suspicion of a real specific diversity. I have examined the teeth of infants and children, and found them in every respect similar to those of Europeans of similar ages. Moreover, the process of degradation may be traced in natives ...

— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor

... expected of animals so much withdrawn from human observation, there is but little to say on the natural history of the Cetacea properly so called. Their food, no doubt, is various, and seems to have little or no relation to the character of their dentition. The enormous Cachalot, with its vast teeth implanted only in one jaw, is generally understood to prey chiefly on the Cuttlefish. The food of the true Whale, or Mysticetus, is well known to be the Clio and other smaller Mollusca, with which certain regions of the ocean abound; the same, ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... imperfections of the mouth, resulting of a bad dentition, are stricken away by the application of the interchanging Thooth. That toolh it is not expensive and you can changed in five minutes ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919 • Various

Words linked to "Dentition" : oral fissure, development, secondary dentition, teething, growing, growth, maturation, ontogeny, odontiasis, precocious dentition