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Definition of diastema in English English dictionary
- A gap or space between two adjacent teeth
A gormless-looking boy, thin and exhibiting diastemata in the shop-front lights, offered him English newspapers.
- A vacant space, or gap, esp
- {i} space between two teeth; cleft, slit, notch
- The space in between two adjacent teeth
- A long natural gap in a row of teeth, especially that between the incisors (or canines) and the cheek teeth in herbivores
- A gap between two teeth, usually at the front of the mouth
- A space or gap between adjacent teeth in a tooth row, often present to accommodate a projecting canine from the opposing jaw; in the mandible the diastema is between the canine and anterior premolar, in the maxilla between the lateral incisor and canine
- between teeth in a jaw
- the space between front teeth
- Space or gap between two teeth
- A space between two teeth
- the space present when the cranial incisors are separated
diastema
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di·a·ste·maPronunciation
Etymology
() From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek διάστημα (diástēma, “interval, space between”). Compare diastasis.Resimler
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