| buccal surface | The mucosa of the cheek, in prosthodontics, the side of a denture adjacent to the cheek. Synonym: vestibular surface of tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| buccal tablet | Usually a small, flat tablet intended to be inserted in the buccal pouch, where the active ingredient is absorbed directly through the oral mucosa; such a tablet dissolves or erodes slowly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buccal tube | <dentistry> A small metal part that is welded on the outside of a molar bank. The buccal tube contains a slots to hold archwires, lip bumpers, face-bows and other things your orthodontist uses to move your teeth. (08 Jan 1998) |
| buccal vestibule | That part of the oral vestibule related to the cheek. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buccaneer | A robber upon the sea; a pirate; a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Alternative forms: bucanier. Primarily, one who dries and smokes flesh or fish after the manner of the Indians. The name was first given to the French settlers in Hayti or Hispaniola, whose business was to hunt wild cattle and swine. Origin: F. Boucanier, fr. Boucaner to smoke or broil meat and fish, to hunt wild beasts for their skins, boucan a smoking place for meat or fish, gridiron for smoking: a word of American origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buccinator | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, posterior portion of alveolar portion of maxilla and mandible and pterygomandibular raphe; insertion, orbicularis oris at angle of mouth; action, flattens cheek, retracts angle of mouth; nerve supply, facial. Plays an important role in mastication, working with tongue to keep food between teeth; when it is paralysed, food accumulates in the oral vestibule. A muscle of the cheek; so called from its use in blowing wind instruments. Origin: L, a trumpeter, fr. Bucinare to sound the trumpet. Synonym: musculus buccinator, cheek muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buccinator crest | A ridge passing from the base of the coronoid process of the mandible to the region of the last molar tooth; it gives attachment to the mandibular part of the buccinator muscle. Synonym: crista buccinatoria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buccinator nerve | <anatomy, nerve> A sensory branch of the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve; it passes downward emerging from beneath the ramus of the mandible to run forward on the buccinator muscle, piercing (but not supplying) it to supply the buccal mucous membrane and skin of the cheek near the angle of the mouth. Synonym: nervus buccalis, buccinator nerve, long buccal nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buccinoid | <zoology> Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata. Origin: Buccinum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| buccinum | <marine biology> A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. Undatum). Origin: L, a trumpet, a trumpet shell. (19 Mar 1998) |
| bucco- | Cheek. Origin: L. Bucca (05 Mar 2000) |
| bucco-occlusal angle | The line of junction of the buccal and occlusal surfaces of a tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buccoaxial | Referring to the line angle formed by the buccal and axial walls of a cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buccoaxiocervical | Referring to the point angle formed by the junction of the buccal, axial, and cervical (gingival) walls of a cavity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| buccoaxiogingival | Referring to the point angle formed by the junction of a buccal, axial, and gingival (cervical) wall. (05 Mar 2000) |