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Encyclopedia > Tooth socket
Dental alveolus
Alveola of the second premolar tooth in a bovine maxillary bone.
Latin alveolus dentalis
Gray's subject #242 1124
MeSH Tooth+socket
Dorlands/Elsevier a_27/12123723

In medicine, dental alveoli are naturally-occurring sockets in the jaws in which the roots of teeth are held. The lay term for dental alveoli is tooth sockets. The joints that connect the roots of the teeth and the alveolus are called gomphoses (singular gomphosis). Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a huge controlled vocabulary (or metadata system) for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. ... Elseviers logo. ... Medicine is a branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, treatment and possible prevention of disease and injury. ... It has been suggested that Socket be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with mandible. ... Types of teeth Molars are used for grinding up foods Carnassials are used for slicing food. ... A joint (from French joint) (articulation) is the location at which two bones make contact (articulate). ...


In mammals, tooth sockets are found in the maxilla and the mandible. I smoke weed im growing a blue penis dude#REDIRECT penises are cool ... The maxillae are the largest bones of the face, except for the mandible, and form, by their union, the whole of the upper jaw. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with jaw. ...

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Pathology

The swelling of the dental alveoli can result in odontobothritis, causing pain and discomfort to the mouth.


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Detailed drawing of the alveoli from Grays Anatomy, 1918 - Schematic longitudinal section of a primary lobule of the lung (anatomical unit); r. ... The alveolar process is the thickened ridge of bone that contains the tooth sockets on bones that bear teeth. ...

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