Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- दन्तदशनरददन्तमूलद्विज
- Hindi
- मसूड़ेदांतदाँतमसूड़ादंतमूल
- English
- Teeth and gumsteethtoothgumsdental
- Romanized
- dantadashanadaant
What the text says
Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.
Anatomy1
The body is said to have thirty-two teeth and no more.
Questions and answers
What counts of bones, joints, sinews, veins, muscles, vessels and vital points does chapter 3 give, and what does the editor's footnote say about the joints?
300 bones, 300 joints, 900 sinews, 700 veins, 500 muscles, 24 vessels (dhamanī) and 107 vital points. The footnote says the joint count cannot equal the bone count, notes Suśruta's 300 bones and 210 joints, and calls the reading a scribal error.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Organ
- Categories
- Organ
- Part of
- Mouth, teeth and gums
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 3
- Extraction tasks
- T02
- Record id
- organ_teeth