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cingulum of tooth

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The portion of the teeth, occurring on the lingual or palatal aspects, that forms a convex protuberance at the cervical third of the anatomic crown. It represents the lingual or palatal developmental lobe of these teeth. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cingulum_(tooth) ]

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Label

cingulum of tooth

Synonyms
  • cingulum (dentis)
  • cingulum dentis
  • tooth cingulum
database cross reference
latin term
cingulum dentis [ FMA : TA FMA : 56731 ]

external ontology notes

FMA has no definition but places this generically with upper, lower, canine, incisor subclasses. Wiktionary states cingulum is lower jaw molar only, and cingulid is upper molar only

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UBERON:0017295

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