Anatomy
dentition Audio
den·ti·tion [ den-tish-uhn ]
Subclass of:
Oral cavity
Definitions related to dentition:
  • Positioning of teeth in the dental arch; affects eating and speech; is used forensically to identify individuals, and anthropologically as a measure of human evolution.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The development and arrangement of teeth in the mouth.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The teeth collectively in the dental arch. Dentition ordinarily refers to the natural teeth in position in their alveoli. Dentition referring to the deciduous teeth is DENTITION, PRIMARY; to the permanent teeth, DENTITION, PERMANENT. (From Jablonski, Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
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