Odontiasis

Definitions of odontiasis

noun
the eruption through the gums of baby teeth

synonyms: dentition, teething

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types:
precocious dentition
teething at an earlier age than expected

type of:
development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

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