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79 Cards in this Set
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Ankylosis
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Union of separate bones or hard parts to form a single bone or part
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Anthropoid
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A person resembling an ape
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Antrum
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An anatomical cavity within a bone (as the maxilla) or hollow organ (as the stomach)
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Apex
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the highest or culminating point
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Alveolus
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a small cavity or pit: as a: a socket in the jaw for a tooth
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Bovine
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having qualities (as placidity or dullness) characteristic of oxen or cows
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Brachyodont
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Tapirs have brachyodont, or low-crowned, teeth that lack cement
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Buccal
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cheek
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Bunodont
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low crownded squarish teeth, capped with enamel, and possessing four major cusps arranged in a rectangle (as in pigs and humans).
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Canine
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one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
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Carnassial
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a tooth that is used to cut or shear flesh and bone. The carnassial teeth of flesh-eating animals include the last premolar on either side of the upper jaw and the first molar on either side of the lower jaw
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Carnivore
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an animal that eats other animals
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Cervix
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The lower section of the uterus which protrudes into the vagina and dilates during labor to allow the passage of the fetus
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Cetacea
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An order of Mammalia, including the Whales, Dolphins, etc., having the form of the body fish-like, the skin naked, and only the fore limbs developed.
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Chiroptera
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"hand-wing;" the scientific order that bats belong to
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Cingulum
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A prominent girdle around the base of a crown of a tooth just above the alveolus.
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Confluent (orbits and zygomatic arches)
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joined together
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Continuously Erupting
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Continuously Erupting
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Cribriform
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perforated with small apertures like a sieve.
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Crypt
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a combining form meaning hidden or concealed, or denoting relationship to a crypt.
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Cuticle (cuticular)
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In animals, a multilayered, extracellular, external body covering, usually composed of fibrous molecules such as chitin or collagen, and sometimes strengthened by the deposition of minerals such as calcium carbonate.
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Deciduous
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describes trees that undergo the annual loss of all leaves, characteristic of trees such as maple, ash, cherry, and cypress.
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Dentine (various types)
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Dentin (BE: dentine) is the name of substance between the enamel (crown) or cementum (root) of a tooth and the pulp chamber. The porous, yellow-hued material is made up of 70% inorganic materials, 20% organic materials, and 10% water. Because it is softer than enamel, it decays more rapidly and is subject to severe caries if not properly treated
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Diastema
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the gap between incisors or canines and cheek teeth in mammals
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Diprotodont (marsupials)
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condition that exist in the Paucituberculata and Diprotodonta. The lower jaw is shortened and the first lower incisors are greatly elongated to meet the upper incisors.
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Distal
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Back
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Diphyodont
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Having two sets of teeth: milk (deciduous) and permanent; the condition of most mammals
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Edentata
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A peculiar order of quadrupeds, characterised by the absence of at least the middle incisor (front) teeth in both jaws
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Embrasure
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the space between two adjacent teeth
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Enamel
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hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth
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Enameloid
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a form of bone with even greater density and mineralization than dentine, usually found as a superficial layer over a dentine structure (eg scales of Paleozoic fish); mesodermal derivative laid down at outer surface of mesodermal papillae; may be up to 25% organic material.
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Equidae (equine)
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the scientific name for the family to which horses and their relatives belong. Asses, donkeys, zebras, mules, ponies, and horses are all a part of this family
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Eutheria
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all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
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Felidae (feline)
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Cat-family
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Follicle
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The fluid-filled sac in the ovary that nurtures the ripening egg and from which the egg is released during ovulation.
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Foramen
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A hole in a bone usually for the transmission of blood vessels and/or nerves
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Fossa
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A pit, depression, or concavity, on a bone, or formed from several bones.
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Haplodont
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teeth have simple crowns and roots, as seen in the dolphin.
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Herbivores
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Animals that eat only plants.
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Heterodont
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having teeth differentiated into various types, ie incisors, canines, premolars, and molars.
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Homodont
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having teeth that are all essentially similar, usually simple cones (secondary homodonty in odontocete whales)
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Hypsodont
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teeth with high crowns; usually rootless and ever-growing.
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Incisor
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Any of the four front teeth in either the upper or lower jaw.
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Insectivora
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shrews; moles; hedgehogs; tenrecs
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Lacuna
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small pit or cavity.
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Lagomorphs
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“hare-shaped” animals such as rabbits, hares, and pikas.
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Lophodont
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Cheek teeth that have a complex, folded cusp pattern, providing grinding surface area for herbivory (eg black rhinoceros)
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Mandible (mandibular)
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The lower jaw, composed of the two dentaries in mammals.
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Marginal ridge
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the rounded borders that form the mesial and distal margins of the occlusal surface of a tooth.
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Marsupials
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An order of Mammalia in which the young are born in a very incomplete state of development, and carried by the mother, while sucking, in a ventral pouch (marsupium), such as the kangaroos, opossums, etc
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Masticatory
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increases flow of saliva upon chewing
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Maxilla
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The maxilla is the major bone of the upper jaw
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Mesial
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Centre
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Metatherian
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primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas
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Monophyodont
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Having only one set of teeth
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Occlusal
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The biting/chewing surface of the back teeth.
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Piscivores
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Fish-eaters; those organisms that subsist exclusively or primarily on fish.
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Polyphyodont
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having more than two sets of teeth in a lifetime, as opposed to diphyodont.
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Polyprotodont (marsupials)
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having more than two lower incisors.
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Premolar
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One of the two permanent teeth located in front of the molars and behind each cuspid. These teeth have two cusps (points) and are used to tear and grind food.
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Primates
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An order within class Mammalia. Large-brained arboreal mammals with stereoscopic color vision and grasping hands (and sometimes feet). Includes prosimians, monkeys, apes, and hominids
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Procumbent
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Pertaining to teeth that slant forward, such as the incisor teeth of a horse.
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Prototheria
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In some systems of classification, a subclass of the Mammalia, including the order Monotremata, the egg-laying mammals
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Ramification
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an arrangement of branching parts
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Reticulum
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the second chamber of the ruminant digestive tract
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Rodents
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small mammals that have special teeth for gnawing
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Ruminants
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Animals having a rumen - a large digestive vat in which fibrous plant material is partially broken down by microbial fermentation, prior to digestion in a "true" stomach (the abomasum). There are also two other stomachs - the reticulum and the omasum. Typical ruminants are cattle and sheep
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Sectorial
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Teeth with sharp cutting cusps
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Selenodont
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Teeth with longitudinal crescentic ridges of enamel
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Scalloped
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An ornamental border consisting of a series of curved projections
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Stellate
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Star-shaped
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Stratum
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one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another
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Suture
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the line of union of two bones or plates
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Symphysis
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point of junction of the two sides of the jaw
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Synchondrosis
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The union of bones by means of fibrous or elastic cartilage
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Talon
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Bird claw; especially a bird of prey, such as an owl, hawk, or eagle
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Tusk
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a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
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Ungulates
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Hoofed, grazing mammals, many of which have horns and double stomaches, in the group Ungulata. In the Columbia Basin, these include deer, elk, bighorn sheep, moose, mountain goat and caribou.
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Vestibule (Vestibular)
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any of various bodily cavities leading to another cavity
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