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Identify Anatomy
Radiology POS 813
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| avulsion | the complete displacement of a tooth from alveolar bone |
| incipient | small; beginning to exist or appear |
| lamina dura | the wall of the tooth socket that surrounds the root of the tooth |
| alveolar bone | bone that supports and encases the roots of the teeth |
| body of the manible | horizontal, u shaped portion that extends from ramus to ramus |
| coronoid process | prominence of bone on the anterior ramus of the mandible |
| external oblique ridge | linear prominence of bone located on the external surface of the body of the mandible |
| incisive foramen | opening or hole in the bone behind the maxillary central incisors |
| interradicular | between the roots |
| mental foramen | opening or hole in bone located under the mandibular premolar |
| nasal septum | vertical bony wall that divides the nasal cavity into the right and left nasal fossae |
| torus | a bony growth in the oral cavity, plural tori |