ALVEOLAR ARCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alveolar arch mean? 

• ALVEOLAR ARCH (noun)
  The noun ALVEOLAR ARCH has 1 sense:

1. the part of the upper or lower jawbones in which the teeth are set

  Familiarity information: ALVEOLAR ARCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALVEOLAR ARCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of the upper or lower jawbones in which the teeth are set

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("alveolar arch" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Holonyms ("alveolar arch" is a part of...):

jaw (the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth)