root of tooth
71root canal — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms root canal : singular root canal plural root canals a set of thin spaces inside the root of a tooth that can become infected …
72root filling — 1. the final stage of root canal treatment, in which the prepared canal inside a tooth root is filled with a suitable material. 2. the material used to fill the canal in the root, usually a core of gutta percha with a thin coating of sealing… …
73root filling — 1) the final stage of root canal treatment, in which the prepared canal inside a tooth root is filled with a suitable material. 2) the material used to fill the canal in the root, usually a core of gutta percha with a thin coating of sealing… …
74Tooth root — The lower two thirds of a tooth. The roots are normally buried in bone, and serve to anchor the tooth in position. They are covered with a thin layer of bone, and insert into sockets in the bone of the jaw …
75root stem — the root part of the tooth in Chondrichthyes between the crown base and the root lobe section (Herman et al., 1994) …
76root canal — noun a) The hollow part of the root of a tooth containing the nerve and blood vessels. b) A surgical operation on a root canal, typically filling it with gutta percha …
77root canal sealer — in root canal therapy, a substance used for cementing silver and gutta percha cones to the tooth structure. Called also endodontic s. and root canal cement …
78root canal — noun the pulp filled cavity in the root of a tooth. ↘N. Amer. a procedure to replace infected pulp in a root canal with an inert material …
79root — n. 1) (in neurology) a bundle of nerve fibres at its emergence from the spinal cord. The 31 pairs of spinal nerves have two roots on each side, an anterior root containing motor nerve fibres and a posterior root containing sensory fibres. The… …
80tooth violet — Coralwort Cor al*wort , n. (Bot.) A cruciferous herb of certain species of {Dentaria}; called also {toothwort}, {tooth violet}, or {pepper root}. [1913 Webster] …
