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Etymology edit

dentitional +‎ -ly

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dentitionally (not comparable)

  1. With regard to dentition.
    • 1913, The Dental Surgeon, volume 9, page 331:
      The report for 1909 showed that 42 per cent. of the children's months were defective dentitionally.
    • 1964, Thomas H. Forde, The principles and practice of oral dynamics, page 87:
      However, this may be said of external pressure only when it is applied to an arch that is dentitionally complete.
    • 2011, Mario Vaneechoutte, Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution[1]:
      These features can probably be considered the minimal characteristic complex for the great ape and human clade, and suggest that they were, at least partly, hard-object feeders, dentitionally most similar to later Sivapithecus, Ouranopithecus, Australopithecus and early Homo.