Hypoconulid

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The distal cusp of a lower molar.

    "Two upper incisors vertically implanted with I 1 slightly larger than I 2 (judging from the remaining roots), strong vertical upper and lower canine with rounded crown sections, reduced and single-rooted P 2, P 3 as large as P 4, simple with their crown obliquely orientated and high protoconid, M 1 with low paraconid, metaconid widely separated from protoconid, and buccodistally projecting hypoconulid."

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parastylid

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"Two upper incisors vertically implanted with I 1 slightly larger than I 2 (judging from the remaining roots), strong vertical upper and lower canine with rounded crown sections, reduced and single-rooted P 2, P 3 as large as P 4, simple with their crown obliquely orientated and high protoconid, M 1 with low paraconid, metaconid widely separated from protoconid, and buccodistally projecting hypoconulid."

Etymology

From hypo- + conulid.

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