The portion of the teeth, occurring on the lingual or palatal aspects, that forms a convex protuberance at the cervical third of the anatomic crown. It represents the lingual or palatal developmental lobe of these teeth. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cingulum_(tooth) ]
Synonyms: tooth cingulum cingulum (dentis) cingulum dentis
Term information
- FMA:56731
- Wikipedia:Cingulum_(tooth)
- SCTID:245650005
FMA has no definition but places this generically with upper, lower, canine, incisor subclasses. Wiktionary states cingulum is lower jaw molar only, and cingulid is upper molar only