alveolar ridge

Questions about alveolar ridge

What does alveolar ridge mean?

alveolar ridge 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 ridge?

Close synonyms include gum ridge, alveolar process. 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 ridge a common word?

alveolar ridge 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.