different between diastema vs diastem

English

Etymology

From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diást?ma, “interval, space between”). Compare diastasis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da???sti?m?/

Noun

diastema (plural diastemas or diastemata)

1. (pathology) A gap or space between two adjacent teeth, especially the upper front incisors (in humans).
   • 1968, Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside:

     A gormless-looking boy, thin and exhibiting diastemata in the shop-front lights, offered him English newspapers.

2. (pathology) any abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in an organ or part of the body.
3. (cytology) the modified protoplasm at the equator of a cell, existing before mitotic division.

Usage notes

In other species, a diastema refers to a gap between teeth of different types, e.g. incisors and molars, which is a feature of some rodents and ungulates.

Derived terms

• diastematic
• diastemal

Further reading

• Diastema (dentistry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Adamites, Adamsite, adamites, adamsite, amidates

Italian

Noun

diastema m (plural diastemi)

1. diastema

Related terms

• diastematico

Anagrams

• disamate

English

Etymology

Latin diastema.

Noun

diastem (plural diastems)

1. Intervening space; interval.
   • 1972, Yusuke Hagihara, Celestial Mechanics: Perturbation Theory, MIT Press

     A space curve contained between two concentric spheres and with its concave side facing always toward the common center of the two spheres is said to be periplegmatic. The radius vector of a periplegmatic curve is of length between the radii of the two spheres. At the maxima and minima of the radius vector the curve touches respectively the larger or smaller of the two limiting spheres. The radial distance between such a maximum and minimum is called the diastem.

2. (obsolete, music) An interval.
3. (geology) A minor depositional break.

Anagrams

• Mid East, Mideast, amidest, damsite, misdate