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Premolar Moderate

Origin: Latin prefix pre-

Premolar has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars

2

A tooth situated in front of the molar teeth; especially a tooth in humans with two cusps which is between the canines and the molars (Latin: singular dens premolaris, plural dentes premolares)

Adjective
1

Before a molar tooth, either in physical position or in its time of development; deciduous.

See Also
canine tooth dens premolaris canine human intersecond camassial deciduous interfirst
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
tooth
Rhyming Words
alar elar hilar tolar salar bolar talar folar valar sylar filar selar solar velar kolar mylar vilar urlar molar polar
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