alveolar process

Questions about alveolar process

What does alveolar process mean?

alveolar process means "a ridge that forms the borders of the upper and lower jaws and contains the sockets of the teeth".

What is another word for alveolar process?

Close synonyms include alveolar ridge, gum ridge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alveolar process a common word?

alveolar process is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.