dentiform (dentiform)

[=F.dent i for me = Pg. dent i for me, dentifrice (den'ti-fris), n. [F. dentifrice = Pg. It. dentifricio, 1537 N. Grew , Museum. The shells of all sorts of shell-fish, being burnt, obtain a caustick nature; most of them, so ordered and powdered, make excellent dentifrices . dentigerous (den-tij'e-rus), a . [= F. dent i gère , t- )s, E. tooth , + gerere , carry.] Bearing or supporting teeth; supplied with teeth. The cranial structure of the Murænidæ , in which the in term axillaries are absent, and the nasal bone dentigerous . Owen , Anat. dentil, dentel (den'til, -tel), n. [OF. *dentel, * denteil (cf. OF. dentel, var. of dental, dentail, Ionic Dentils ( d ).- Caryatid porch of the Erechtheum, Athens. In arch., one of a series of little cubes in to which the ber in the bed dentition as ivory, for instance, as distinguished from enamel, cement, or pulp. Dentin resembles bone, but is ordinarily denser and harder. The difference is seen on microscopic section, when a multitude of very fine close set tubules or canaliculi (the dentinal tubes) are seen following a parallel straight or wavy course, and no corpuscles or lacunæ appear, while bone-ti ue shows abundant corpuscles with the canaliculi radiating in every direction. The corpusculated parts of teeth are the softer constituents, as the cement or pulp, for example, whence the canaliculi alone penetrate the dentin, which is therefore comparable to the canalicular substance of bone in a state of extreme density and hardne . See cut under tooth. dentinal (den'ti-nal), a. [