apicocoronal
English
Etymology
From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from apico- + coronal.
Adjective
apicocoronal (not comparable)
- (anatomy, dentistry, prosthodontics) Of or pertaining to the apical and coronal aspects of a tooth (the root apex and the crown); as (usually, more specifically) being on the longitudinal axis of the tooth, defined by those poles.
Coordinate terms
- coronoapical (synonymous in the sense of collinear axis (↕) but antonymous in the sense of a vector (↑ vs ↓); thus, a synanagrammatocontronym (synanagrammatic contronym))