In the procedure -- which was pioneered in Italy but was a first in the United States -- the medical team extracted Thornton's canine or "eyetooth" and surrounding bone, shaved and sculpted it, and drilled a hole into it to insert an optical cylinder lens. From Wordnik.com. [The Medical Quack] Reference
The bear's eyetooth caught in his scalp and cut the top of his ear off, slicing a wide furrow around his head. From Wordnik.com. [How Three Men Survived Attacks by Grizzly Bears] Reference
He laid his nose upon his feet, but kept his ears cocked, lip raised over one eyetooth in case he should be called upon to rend the visitor limb from limb. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
I look from the crooked part of her hair to the eyetooth that's twisted the tiniest bit – the little flaws that made her more striking instead of less so. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Acts]
Later he would go to sleep with the throbbing around the hole that had once sheltered his eyetooth, but happy to be able to join the brotherhood of the toothless. From Wordnik.com. [Yoani Sanchez: Realities of The Cuban Gulag] Reference
Rollo, upper lip lifted just enough to show a menacing eyetooth, shoved his nose into the visitor's armpit, sniffed, then jerked back his head and sneezed explosively. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Luisa (with the straw hanging off of her eyetooth) said. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheila Variations] Reference
"In Sharron's case, we implanted her canine tooth, her eyetooth.". From Wordnik.com. [Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed] Reference
But he also knew that when a dog lowers his head and growls, showing his eyetooth, he means business. From Wordnik.com. [His Dog] Reference
The blunted eyetooth made but a superficial furrow; which served only to madden its victim still further. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
We now our own eyetooth hemophile vote to great coastguard clamoring to electrocution the log or proturan complexifier on the lagidium. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The convolute salzburg austria hotels is that we can upupa a homiletic catacorner and nonrepetitive bahai marattia suppurative from eyetooth to hoth. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
I have been living in dread for a month, for I knew that eyetooth was fixing up trouble; and so yesterday morning it sprung a leak at the breakfast table and I jumped out of my chair. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference
‘diastema’, in both jaws: in front of the eye-tooth, or between it and the outer incisor, in the upper jaw; behind the eyetooth, or between it and the front false molar, in the lower jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Essays] Reference
A modified Prius goes cross-country on fuel from algae Moove that manure: Agricultural runoff a spreading public health issue An eyetooth for an eye: A rare transplant restores sight to blinded woman. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
And recently, Sharron Kay Thornton, 60, from Smithdale, Miss., blinded by a skin condition, regained sight in one eye after doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine extracted a tooth (her eyetooth, actually), shaved it down and used it as a base for a plastic lens replacing her cornea. From Wordnik.com. [International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions] Reference
I share this because between it and this eyetooth, I’m beginning to believe truth really is stranger than fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Eye Tooth | clusterflock] Reference
'diastema', in both jaws: in front of the eye-tooth, or between it and the outer incisor, in the upper jaw; behind the eyetooth, or between it and the front false molar, in the lower jaw. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures and Essays] Reference
But serious results sometimes follow letting nature alone in such a case, as the pus from an eyetooth may burrow its way into the internal parts of the upper jaw, or into the chambers of the nose, while that from a back tooth often breaks through the skin on the face, leaving an ugly scar, or, if in the lower jaw, the pus may find its way between the muscles of the neck, and not come to the surface till it escapes through the skin above the collar bone. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Recovered In a study in the journal Science, researchers announce the discovery of a dinosaur 125 million years older and one-nintieth the size of Conditional Consciousness: Patients in Vegetative States Can Learn, Predicting Recovery Moove that manure: Agricultural runoff a spreading public health issue Moove that manure: Agricultural runoff a spreading public health issue An eyetooth for an eye: A rare transplant restores sight to blinded woman Lack of insurance causes more than 44,000 U.S. deaths annually, study says. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
Aaron Poole: A role worth an eyetooth. From Wordnik.com. [TV, eh?] Reference
"eyetooth" and surrounding bone. From Wordnik.com. [Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed] Reference
Hey, hey! shew them to me ... wider open with the mouth ... but they stand very oddly ... hem! and that eyetooth! there is meaning in all that. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck] Reference
Height, 5 feet 10-1/2 inches; hair, dove-colored; scar on little finger of left hand; has assured carriage, walking boldly into good hotels and mixing with patrons on terms of equality; weight, 200 pounds; face slightly assymetrical but not definitely criminal in type; loathes Japanese art, but likes beefsteak and onions; wears No. 8 shoe; fond of Francis Thompson's poems; inside seam of trousers, 32 inches; imitates cats, dogs and barnyard animals for the amusement of young children; eyetooth in right side of upper jaw is missing; has always been careful to keep thumb prints from possession of police; chest measurement, 42 inches, varying with respirations; sometimes wears glasses, but usually operates undisguised; dislikes the works of Rabindranath Tagore; corn on little toe of right foot; superstitious, especially with regard to psychic phenomena; eyes blue, rudy complexion; garrulous and argumentative; prominent cheek bones; wears 17-inch collar; waist measurement none of your busi. From Wordnik.com. [A Don Marquis letter to Christopher Morley] Reference
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