coronoapical

English

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from corona +‎ -o- +‎ apical.

Adjective

coronoapical (not comparable)

(anatomy, dentistry, prosthodontics) Of or pertaining to the coronal and apical aspects of a tooth (the crown and the root apex); as (usually, more specifically) being on the longitudinal axis of the tooth, defined by those poles.

Coordinate terms

apicocoronal (synonymous in the sense of collinear axis (↕) but antonymous in the sense of a vector (↑ vs ↓); thus, a synanagrammatocontronym (synanagrammatic contronym))

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