CLASSICS 2MT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dentin, Periodontium, Cemento
17 May 2016
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Dental locatives are adjectival in meaning - english equivalents must be adjectives rather than nouns. Pertaining to or formed by the x-al and z-al surfaces of a tooth. Pertaining to or formed by the x-al and z-al walls of a tooth cavity: notice the order of translation - dental locatives is left to right. Most combinations of locative bases describe tooth angles = when one of the elements is pulp/o, gingiv/o, or axi/o the compound will refer to cavity angles. axi-o-x-o-lingual = pertaining to or formed by the axial, x-al and lingual surfaces of a tooth: x-o-cervical = pertaining to the x-al surface of the cervix of a tooth b. dist/o and mesi/o in combination with bucc/o, lingu/o, labi/o, and. occlus/o form words describing line angles - terms with 2 meanings as they refer to both tooth angle and cavity angle. Or pertaining to or formed by the buccal and lingual surfaces of a tooth.
