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dental formula
noun
A brief notation used by zoologists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal.
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Research and write the dental formula to determine the number of teeth in an adult human.
The dental formula for the family is set up, therefore, as follows: 0. (0.1).
The conventional way of describing the number of teeth in a particular species is with a "dental formula".
The dental formula in all cats, for either side of both upper and lower jaws, is incisors 3/3, canines 1/1, premolars 3/2, and molars 1/1.
Except for variability as to the presence of premolars, the ursid dental formula is that of the Carnivora generally, but the sloth bear lacks one pair of upper incisors.
The dental formula of primitive placental mammals is assumed to have been 5 .1. 4. 3 / 5. 1. 4. 3 = 44 teeth (the numbers being the numbers respectively of pairs of incisors, canines, premolars, and molars in the upper and lower jaws).
It possesses the primitive or typical dental formula of the Eocene mammals, and the incisors, canines, and premolars, are not unlike those of a dog, but the three true molars, both above and below, are shaped like the sectorial teeth of a cat or hyaena, and increase in size from the first to the last, and thus there are no teeth formed like the "tuber-culars" of ordinary Carnivores.
The dental formula is I 2/2, C 1/1, PC 5/5.
The assessment site, dental formula, and loading point were used as intra-subject parameters.
The boundary conditions, dental formula, and loading point were used as intra-subject parameters.
The age of the animals was determined through interviews with targeted livestock owners and was further corroborated by use of dental formula.
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