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The dense calcified substance of which teeth are largely composed. It contains less animal matter than bone, and in the teeth of man is situated beneath the enamel.

A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.

A form of dentine which shows sinuous lines of structure in a transverse section of the tooth.

Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city.

A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by blood capillaries; vascular dentine.

Of or pertaining to dentine.

sed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement. Enamel painting, painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being afterwards fixed by fire. -- Enamel paper, paper glazed a metallic coating.

Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

ween globules; -- applied esp. to certain small spaces, surrounded by minute globules, in dentine.

opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.

pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.