hypoconid

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hypoconid (plural hypoconids)

(dentistry) One of the main cusps, at the posterolabial side.
- 1999 October 15, J.-J. Jaeger et al., “A New Primate from the Middle Eocene of Myanmar and the Asian Early Origin of Anthropoids”, in Science‎^[1], volume 286, number 5439, →DOI, pages 528–530:
  Differs from Catopithecus and Oligopithecus by the retention of P 2 2, its single-cusped P 4, its P 3-4 of about the same size, its hypoconid nontwinned with entoconid on lower molars, its upper premolars without inner cusps, and by its broader upper molars with only very slight hypocone swelling.