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stamp cusp

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stamp cusp
Etymology: ME, stampen + L, cuspis, point
a tooth cusp that works in a fossa, such as any of the maxillary lingual cusps.

stamp cusp,
n a cusp made to work in a fossa. The maxillary lingual cusps are stamp cusps. In tooth-to-tooth occlusion all mandibular buccal cusps may stamp into fossae. In tooth-to-two-tooth occlusion the stamp cusps of the mandibular premolars may have their tips in embrasures and have only their shoulders in tiny fossae. See also cusp-fossa relations.


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