premolar

The jaw is exceptionally sturdy, with remarkably large canine and premolar teeth.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Until recently, the only reliable way to determine the age of a polar bear has been to extract a premolar and inspect its growth rings.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Mr. Biden began experiencing dental pain in his lower right premolar on Sunday, according to a letter from White House physician Kevin O’Connor.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

Biden’s personal physician, Kevin O’Connor, said in a memo released by the White House that Biden reported the pain in his lower right premolar on Sunday.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

The first premolar, situated behind, a little within the line of the canine, is very small, tuberculiform, and a little compressed laterally.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale

Nor the “bizarrely specialized” family of carnivorous marsupials, Malleodectidae, which used their massive ball peen-like third premolars to crush snails.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025

For example, bats with long jaws -- like nectar-feeders -- or intermediate jaws, like many insect-eaters, tended to have the usual complement of three premolars and three molars on each side of the jaw.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023

Toasted just enough to bring out its subtly nutty flavor and, thus, pebbly enough to reduce one of my favorite premolars into a crumble of toothy dust.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021

Looking at the teeth, for example, the premolars of H. luzonensis are large and one of them has an extra tooth root—primitive features.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 11, 2019

Characters previously mentioned in the literature as having taxonomic worth for supraspecific categories of chipmunks were checked by me on specimens old enough to have worn permanent premolars.

From Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks by John A. White