bicuspid

Example Sentences

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The tooth is a wink at “One Morning in Maine,” an earlier Robert McCloskey book involving a wiggly bicuspid — or was it a molar?

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2024

"I was born with a bicuspid aortic valve where you've only got two valves going to the aorta not three," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2022

Blood travels through the bicuspid valve to the left atrium.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

They’re usually bicuspid in shape, which means they have two little points at the end.

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2021

The dentist's forceps would dance along the teeth, and many an uncomplaining bicuspid was wrenched from its happy home, many an uneasy molar assumed a crown.

From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert