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molars
- The teeth with broad surfaces at the back of the mouth that serve to grind food. Including the wisdom teeth , adults have twelve molars — six on the top and six on the bottom. ( Compare incisors and canines .)
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We have teeth that allow us to grind plants (molars) or tear flesh (incisors).
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Food is caught between irregular projections on the surface of the molars and crushed to a pulpy mass.
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The lower premolar is tricuspidate and the first and second molars are quadritubercular with a broad cingulum.
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These two aptitudes, simple though they be, characterize man better than the number of his vertebrae and his molars.
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There were fifty four teeth in all, and the premolars were larger than the molars.
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Now, as a dentition becomes more distinctly carnivorous, so the hindmost molars and the foremost premolars disappear.
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