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Descriptor English: Tooth
Descriptor Spanish: Diente
Descriptor diente
Scope note: Una de las numerosas estructuras dentales que se desarrollan en los maxilares como parte del aparato digestivo y que se utilizan para cortar, picar y procesar los alimentos en la boca para su posterior ingestión. Cada diente está formado por una corona que se proyecta por encima delas encías; dos a cuatro raíces, incluidas en los alveolos, y un cuello que se extiende entre la corona y la raíz. Cada diente contiene una cavidad llena de pulpa muy rica en vasos sanguíneos y nervios que entran en la cavidad a través de un pequeño orificio situado en la punta de cada raíz. La porción sólida del diente está formada por dentina, esmalte y una fina capa de hueso en la superficie de la raíz. (Diccionario Mosby. 5a ed. Madrid: Harcourt España, 2000, p.372)
Descriptor Portuguese: Dente
Descriptor French: Dent
Entry term(s): Teeth
Tree number(s): A14.549.167.860
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014070
Scope note: One of a set of bone-like structures in the mouth used for biting and chewing.
Annotation: /embryol: consider also TOOTH GERM & ODONTOGENESIS; /ph permitted but consider DENTAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA for function of dentition as a whole; tooth size & dimension = TOOTH /anat (IM) + ODONTOMETRY (NIM); permanent tooth = TOOTH, deciduous tooth = TOOTH, DECIDUOUS; tooth pain = TOOTHACHE; tooth sensitivity = DENTIN SENSITIVITY
Allowable Qualifiers: AH anatomy & histology
BS blood supply
CH chemistry
CY cytology
DE drug effects
DG diagnostic imaging
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
IM immunology
IR innervation
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
SU surgery
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Entry Combination: abnormalities:Tooth Abnormalities
injuries:Tooth Injuries
Public MeSH Note: 65; was TEETH 1963-64; /transplantation was TOOTH TRANSPLANTATION 1965
History Note: 65; was TEETH 1963-64; /transplantation was TOOTH TRANSPLANTATION 1965
Consider Also: consider also terms at DENT- and ODONTO-
Related: Dentition MeSH
Mastication MeSH
Odontogenesis MeSH
Paleodontology MeSH
DeCS ID: 14460
Unique ID: D014070
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Tooth - Preferred
Concept UI M0021667
Scope note One of a set of bone-like structures in the mouth used for biting and chewing.
Preferred term Tooth
Entry term(s) Teeth



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