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Webster 1913 Edition

Premolar

Pre-mo′lar

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Adj.

(Anat.)

Situated in front of the molar teeth.

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Noun.

An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. See

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Definition 2024

premolar

premolar

English

Noun

premolar ‎(plural premolars)

A tooth situated in front of the molar teeth; especially a tooth in humans with two cusps which is between the canines and the molars (latin: singular dens premolaris, plural dentes premolares) ^syn.

Translations

tooth

Arabic: نَاجِذ m ‎(nājiḏ), ضَاحِك m ‎(ḍāḥik), طَاحِن m ‎(ṭāḥin)
Czech: třenový zub m, třenák m (colloquial)
Finnish: välihammas (fi)
German: Prämolar m, Vormahlzahn m
Greek: προγόμφιος m ‎(progómfios)
Hebrew: מַלְתָּעָה (he) f ‎(malta'á), קְדַם טוֹחֶנֶת f ‎(qdam toḥenét)

Icelandic: forjaxl m, framjaxl m
Italian: premolare m
Japanese: 小臼歯 (ja) ‎(shōkyūshi)
Polish: przedtrzonowiec (pl) m
Tagalog: talubagang

Synonyms

(a tooth^def.): bicuspid