Incisor

Definition: Incisor

Incisor

Noun

1. A tooth for cutting or gnawing; located in the front of the mouth in both jaws.

Date "incisor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Anything adapted for cutting; any one of the four front teeth in each jaw. Source: European Union. (references)
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Incisors are the first kind of tooth in heterodont mammals. In many herbivorous or omnivorous mammals, such as the human and the horse, they are adapted for shearing sharply. In cats, the incisors are small and do not do much; biting off meat is done with the canines and the carnassials. In elephants, the upper incisors are modified into tusks. The incisors of rodents grow throughout life and are worn by gnawing.

Humans have eight. Some other primates, cats, and horses, have twelve. The rodents have four; lagomorphs were once thought to be rodents, but are distinguished by having eight.

Crosswords: Incisor

English words defined with "incisor": aye-aye ♦ Canine tooth ♦ Daubentonia madagascariensis, Desmodus rotundus ♦ Fore teeth, Fore tooth ♦ gnawer, gnawing animal ♦ Incisory ♦ Nasopalatine, Noctilionid ♦ Polyprotodonta, Premaxilla, Proclivous ♦ rodent ♦ Toxodonta. (references)

Specialty definitions using "incisor": dental infundibulum ♦ infundibulum dentis. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Incisor" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Spanish (incisor).

Domain	Title
Books	Treatment of Traumatized Incisor in the Child Patient (Continuing Dental Education Series) (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Hutchinson's Teeth is a congenital anomaly in which the permanent incisor teeth are narrow and notched. Note the notched edges and "screwdriver" shape of the central incisors.Credit: CDC.		Photomicrograph of the root of a primary incisor ...Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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	Brushing teeth; tooth; dental; dentifrice; toothpaste; cavities; cavity; floss; oral hygiene; mouth; gums; gingivitis; periodontal; periodontist; dentist; molar; incisor; bicuspid.
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"Incisor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Incisor" is used about 76 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	76	38,217

Expression using "incisor": incisor tooth. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "incisor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhëmb prerës. (various references)

Arabic		‏قاطعة سن, ‏سن قاطعة. (various references)

Bulgarian		резец (chisel, cutter, edge, engraver, foretooth), острие на сечиво. (various references)

Chinese		门牙, 板牙 (front tooth, molar, screw die, threading die). (various references)

Czech		řezák. (various references)

Danish		incisiv (incisive), fortand. (various references)

Dutch		snijtand (cutting tooth, knife tooth, ripper tooth). (various references)

Farsi		ثنایا (Incisive), دندان پیشین (Incisive). (various references)

Finnish		Hutchinsonin hammas (Hutchinson's incisor, Hutchinson's tooth). (various references)

French		incisive. (various references)

German		schneidezahn (knife tooth, knife-like blade, ripper tooth). (various references)

Greek		κοπτήρας (biscuit cutter, cutter, foot knife, toeing knife). (various references)

Hebrew		מלתע�" (grinder, jaw, premolar), מתלע�" (jaw, tooth), שן חותכת. (various references)

Hungarian		metszõfog (fore-tooth). (various references)

Italian		incisivo (incisive, punchy, trenchant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		門歯 (incisive tooth). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		も�"し (die in agony, incisive tooth). (various references)

Korean		앞니. (various references)

Manx		feeackle cheu veealloo (front tooth), claare-eeackle. (various references)

Pig Latin		incisoray

Portuguese		incisivo (cutting, incisive, nippy, trenchant), mordaz (acrid, bitter, clear-sighted, doubletree, keen, mordacious, pepper, peppery, piquant, poignant, pointed, pungent, sarcastic, scathing, scorching, sharp, slashing, squint eyed, stinging, tart, trenchant, virulent), dente incisivo (incite). (various references)

Russian		резец (chisel, cutter, cutting tool, glass cutter, graver), передний зуб (foretooth, nipper). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		incizor, sekutić. (various references)

Spanish		incisivo (incisive, nicking, trenchant). (various references)

Swedish		skärtand, framtand (foretooth). (various references)

Turkish		kesici diş. (various references)

Ukranian		різець (chisel, cutter, tool), передній зуб (nipper). (various references)

Vietnamese		răng sữa (milk-tooth). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incisor": incisors, incisory. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incisor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anchisaur, Enciso, incessory, Inchinor, incis, inciser, Inficorp, Nicanor, nisyros. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incisor" (pronounced i'nsī"zer)
4	-s ī" z er	sizer.
3	-ī" z er	adviser, advisor, divisor, geyser, kaiser, miser, riser, wiser.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-i-n-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: ionics, ironic, orcins, ricins.
	-2 letters: cions, coins, coirs, corns, icons, ionic, irons, noirs, noris, orcin, ornis, ricin, rosin, scion, scorn, sonic.
	-3 letters: cion, coin, coir, coni, cons, corn, cors, cris, icon, inro, ions, iris, iron, nisi, noir, nori, orcs, rins, rocs, sori, sorn.
	-4 letters: cis, con, cor, cos, ins, ion, nor, nos, ons, orc, ors, rin, roc, sic, sin, sir, son, sri.
	-5 letters: in, is, no, on, or, os, si, so.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-i-n-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: crinoids, incisors, incisory, recision, soricine.
	+2 letters: cistronic, criminous, frictions, incurious, incursion, indictors, noncrisis, precision, recisions, zirconias.
	+3 letters: acrimonies, ascription, bronchitis, carcinoids, coinsuring, comprising, conspiring, cousinries, creolising, crimsoning, crinolines, criterions, directions, disconfirm, discording, discretion, exorcising, histrionic, honorifics, incorpsing, incrossing, incursions, indicators, inflictors, infrasonic, isentropic, microminis, micronizes, minicourse, morticians, organicism, organicist, organismic, pernicious, precisions, rejoicings, relictions, rescission, scissoring, scorifying, trichinous, tricotines, trisection, tyrocidins, zirconiums.
	+4 letters: acrimonious, anisotropic, ascriptions, carotinoids, chiffoniers, chinoiserie, chironomids, chrismation, cloistering, congruities, conscribing, considering, consigliere, consiglieri, contritions, coscripting, creationism, creationist, description, diachronies, dicoumarins, discoloring, disconfirms, discoursing, discovering, discretions, discrowning, disfrocking, distraction, dominickers, fictioneers, gongoristic, harmonicist, histrionics, imprecision, incuriosity, incuriously, infarctions, informatics, infractions, inscription, inscrolling, insectivore, instruction, ionospheric, isochronism, jargonistic, microclines, microinches, minicourses, miscoloring, miscreation, modernistic, neuroticism, nonartistic, organicisms, organicists, ostracising, ostracizing, picrotoxins, predictions, proficients, proscribing, provincials, recitations, recognising, rescissions, restriction, romanticise, romanticism, romanticist, rustication, sardonicism, thermionics, trichinoses, trichinosis, trisections, tyrocidines, urtications, vindicators, voiceprints.
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