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retrusion

[ ri-troo-zhuhn, -shuhn ]

noun

Dentistry.
  1. the act of moving a tooth backward.
  2. a condition characterized by the backward displacement of a tooth or teeth.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ٰ· [ri-, troo, -siv], adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of retrusion1

1650–60; < Latin ٰū ( us ) removed, concealed (past participle of ٰū; retrude ) + -ion
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Such a necessity is truly compulsion; nor is it in the least altered in its nature by being assumed to be eternal, in virtue of an endless remotion or retrusion of the constituent cause, which being manifested by the understanding becomes a foreseen despair of a cause.

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