cheektooth

(ˈtʃiːkˌtuːθ)

any molar or premolar tooth

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As in other Isothrix, there is no neoflexus on any cheektooth. On the [M.sup.1], the hypoflexus is large and short, sharply square against the protocone and hypocone.

A distinctive new cloud-forest rodent (hystricognathi: echimyidae) from the manu biosphere reserve, Peru

* LUM, length of upper molariform toothrow -- maximum length from the anterior edge of alveolus of first cheektooth to the posterior edge of the alveolus of last molar.

Morphometric variation, measurement error, and fluctuating asymmetry in the red fig-eating bat (Stenoderma rufum)

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