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Excerpt from Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Teeth It has been my object to systematize the nomenclature most in vogue with the profession, whenever practical, rather than to introduce new terms. However, the reader will find a. Few new terms, and possibly a few old ones, that are used differently from the former custom. The -terms up and down, to indicate direction or parts of teeth, are abandoned, because of their ambiguity. In a few instances, new forms of old words have been used, especially to avoid the terms inner, outer, backward, forward, etc., which are so often mis leading. The words mesial, distal, labial, buccal, lingual, etc., are used as adverbs of direction by adding ly, or t...