premolar
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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
The third premolar, like the second, is double rooted; its crown moreover is made up of two cusps, the posterior being almost as large as the principal one.
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
One such group—the multituberculates—flourished in the Cretaceous underworld, using their saw-blade premolars and gnawing incisors to devour a new type of food: fruits and flowers.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2022
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
Cercoleptes again resembles Leptarctus in having only three premolars in the lower jaw; the middle one, however, has only a single cusp upon the crown, whereas Leptarctus has two.
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
