incisor

Based on the emergence of its baby incisor teeth, researchers estimate the cub was about 3 weeks old when it died.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 15, 2024

To learn more about the composition of rodent tooth enamel, Vesna Srot and colleagues captured high-resolution images of incisor specimens from several species.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

For many Angelenos, it’s lowriders, gleaming fronts on our canine and incisor teeth, a purse cast in sterling silver.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

The researchers solved the mystery by analyzing a molar and an incisor - detecting the presence of a gene regulating a certain enamel-forming protein to reveal it was a woman.

From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2023

With their hair flying and their mouths open, screaming at each other, I realized that none of the sisters had any teeth except for Wasp, who had one mossy yellow incisor.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

Another clue is the presence of pronounced canines that separate one set of teeth from another—the incisors from the bicuspids and molars, for instance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

And they have tiny, mostly useless little eyes, no ears, and a pair of huge incisors like a mastodon's tusks.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

When the singer and songwriter Adrianne Lenker was 21, she was involved in a bike accident that knocked out one of her incisors.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024

They're expanding this study to include noctilionoid incisors and canines, and hope to uncover more of the genetic and developmental mechanisms that control tooth development in this diverse group of bats.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

He treated a syphilitic child and pointed out to Mr. Singer the scaling eruption on the palms of the hand, the dull, opaque surface of the eye, the sloping upper front incisors.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers