retrusion
Americannoun
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the act of moving a tooth backward.
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a condition characterized by the backward displacement of a tooth or teeth.
Other Word Forms
- retrusive adjective
Etymology
Origin of retrusion
1650–60; < Latin retrūs ( us ) removed, concealed (past participle of retrūdere; retrude ) + -ion
Example Sentences
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Such a necessity is truly compulsion; nor is it in the least altered in its nature by being assumed to be eternal, in virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause, which being manifested by the understanding becomes a foreseen despair of a cause.
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