Look up: Odontoblast

1. Odontoblast
   O·don"to·blast noun [ Odonto- + -blast .] 1. (Anat.) One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine. 2. (Zoology) One of the cells which secrete the chitinous teeth of Mollusca.
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2. odontoblast
   Columnar cells derived from the dental papilla after ameloblasts have differentiated and that give rise to the dentine matrix that underlies the enamel of a tooth. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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3. Odontoblast
   An `odontoblast` is a biological cell of neural crest origin that is part of the outer surface of the dental pulp, and whose biological function is dentinogenesis, which is the creation of dentin, the substance under the tooth enamel. The odontoblasts secrete dentin throughout life, which may be an attempt to compensate for natural wearing down of the enamel. In the case of an infection breaching the tooth to the pulp and killing odontoblasts, Pe...
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4. Odontoblast
   An `odontoblast` is a biological cell of neural crest origin that is part of the outer surface of the dental pulp, and whose biological function is dentinogenesis, which is the creation of dentin, the substance under the tooth enamel. The odontoblasts secrete dentin throughout life, which may be an attempt to compensate for natural wearing down of the enamel. In the case of an infection breaching the tooth to the pulp and killing odontoblasts, Pe...
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5. odontoblast
   (o-don´to-blast) one of the connective tissue cells that deposit dentin and form the outer surface of the dental pulp adjacent to the dentin.
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6. Odontoblast
   • (n.) One of the cells which secrete the chitinous teeth of Mollusca. • (n.) One of the more or less columnar cells on the outer surface of the pulp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.
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7. odontoblast
   (from the article `neural crest`) ...deep layers of the epidermis that contain pigment and are responsible for skin coloration. In the head region the neural crest cells contribute ... Among the cartilaginous fishes, sharks have a very tough skin. Scattered over it are denticles, each with a pulp cavity, around the edge of which is ... ...
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8. odontoblast
   One of the dentin-forming cells, derived from mesenchyme of neural crest origin, lining the pulp cavity of a tooth; odontoblasts are arranged in a peripheral layer in the dental pulp, each with an odontoblastic process extending through the thickness of the dentine; the cells generally are columnar in the coronal pulp but are more cuboidal in the r...
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