loph

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek λόφος (lóphos, crest); compare lopho-, lophid.

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loph (plural lophs)

  1. (zoology, dentistry) A ridge of enamel connecting the cusps of a molar or cheek tooth.
    • 1937, Cleveland Sylvester Simkins, History of the Human Teeth: An Introduction to Comparative Dental Anatomy[1], page 177:
      The plates are closely cemented together and in the early tooth they extend above the surface in a series of lophs. Because there are many of them that make up the whole molar, the tooth is called a polylophodont.
    • 2005, Louise Emmons, “A revision of the genera of arboreal echimyidae”, in James L. Patton, Eileen A. Lacey, Philip Myers, editors, Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to Phylogeography[2], page 252:
      I include only 15 cheektooth features, although one could define a great many more in a loph-by-loph analysis.

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