| 单词 | alveolar arch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalveolar arch alveolar arch n. [after French arcade alvéolaire (1724 or earlier); compare quot. 1733 at alveolary adj.] an alveolar process; (also) the alveolar processes of the right and left maxilla, or of the right and left mandible, considered together. ΚΠ 1791 W. Vaughan Expos. Princ. Anat. & Physiol. I. 73 The Alveolar Arch, which if both bones be taken together, is composed of sixteen (alveoli) sockets. 1837 W. P. Cocks Conc. Treat. Operative Surg. 352 After dividing the soft parts that adhered to the internal surface of the alveolar arch, he detached the entire mass of the osteo-sarcoma. 1943 K. L. Pike Phonetics vii. 123 A domal sound (i.e. cerebral, or cacuminal) implies that the tongue tip articulates somewhere behind the alveolar arch. 2005 L. Barnes et al. Pathol. & Genetics Head & Neck Tumours 166/2 The hard palate is continuous anteriorly with the maxillary alveolar arches and posteriorly with the soft palate. < as lemmas |
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