premolar

But bats with short jaws, including most fruit-eating bats, tended to ditch the middle premolar or the back molar, if not both.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

Until recently, the only reliable way to determine the age of a polar bear has been to extract a premolar and inspect its growth rings.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Mr. Biden began experiencing dental pain in his lower right premolar on Sunday, according to a letter from White House physician Kevin O’Connor.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

Biden’s personal physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in a memo released by the White House that Biden reported the pain in his lower right premolar on Sunday.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

In the third premolar the posterior cusp is much better developed, and placed more obliquely than in the corresponding tooth of Procyon; the heel is moreover not so broad.

From On The Affinities of Leptarctus primus of Leidy American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VI, Article VIII, pp. 229-331. by Wortman, Jacob Lawson

Nor the “bizarrely specialized” family of carnivorous marsupials, Malleodectidae, which used their massive ball peen-like third premolars to crush snails.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025

The team used CT scans and other methods to analyze the shapes and sizes of jaws, premolars and molars in more than 100 noctilionoid species.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

Toasted just enough to bring out its subtly nutty flavor and, thus, pebbly enough to reduce one of my favorite premolars into a crumble of toothy dust.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021

Looking at the teeth, for example, the premolars of H. luzonensis are large and one of them has an extra tooth root—primitive features.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 11, 2019

Still the differences are great, as, for instance, in the much larger size of the canines and premolars.

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William