tooth
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CT scans performed at Advanced Medical Imaging at Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital provided additional detail about how the tooth became trapped in the skull.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The fossil is now part of the Museum of the Rockies' paleontology collection, where one extraordinary feature immediately stands out: a broken tyrannosaur tooth remains lodged in the animal's face.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The essays take significant time and creativity, particularly as prompts have grown more peculiar in recent years, including “So where is Waldo, really?” and “What advice would a wisdom tooth have?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But orders started falling when customers lost their sweet tooth as the price of a bar of chocolate rose by up to 50 percent.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
I slipped the paper under my arm and hurried off before he started making a fuss about cracking a tooth on that biscuit.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
“You see my face, you see my teeth, this is from the mistreatment,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
But standing still is no guarantee of safety either: One woman’s hem got caught in the teeth of an escalator.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
Bacteria that cause gum disease may do more than damage your teeth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
He took the extra time to brush his teeth and comb his hair, before putting on his blue jumpsuit and getting ushered into a van in handcuffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Dad was clipping needle teeth on the pigs, so I didn’t have his full attention.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Also unearthed were fireplaces containing evidence of the burning of toothed wrack seaweed to form soda ash.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
The inspectors also reported crews spraying contaminated pool water onto neighboring properties and into storm drains, and excavator operators using toothed buckets that caused clean and contaminated soil to be commingled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
Bladder, toothed and spiral wracks often have notably higher antioxidant contents than many other seaweeds.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
New research suggests that the collections of fatty tissue that enable toothed whales to do so may have evolved from their skull muscles and bone marrow.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
Solid structures are set to vibrating by toothed bows in crustaceans and insects.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
The depth of the toothing is 10 mm.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various
Unwittingly one will reason as if the slight variation were a toothing stone set up by the organism and reserved for a later construction.
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
It frequently happens, that during Dentition, or the Time of their toothing, Children prove subject to Knots or Kernels.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
The strange feature in this case is the zig-zag "toothing" which is employed to represent the jaws.
From In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by Vincent, W.T. (William Thomas)
The second year included rowlock and bonded segmental arches; blocking, toothing, and corbeling; building and bonding of vaulted walls; polygonal and circular walls, piers and chimneys; fire-places and flues.
From One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by Carleton, William
