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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buccal

Buccal \Buc"cal\, a. [L. bucca cheek: cf. F. buccal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mouth or cheeks.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
buccal

"pertaining to the cheek," 1831, from Latin bucca "cheek," especially when puffed out (later "mouth"); see bouche.

Wiktionary
buccal

a. 1 Of or relating to the cheek or, more rarely, the mouth. 2 (context dentistry of a premolar or molar English) On the side facing the cheek. 3 (context medicine of a drug English) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.

WordNet
buccal
  1. adj. of or relating to or toward the cheek

  2. lying within the mouth; "a buccal gland"

  3. toward the inside of the cheek; "the buccal aspect of the gum"

Wikipedia
Buccal

Buccal may refer to:

  • Mouth, a body cavity
    • Specifically the cheek
    • The buccal space in the mouth
    • Buccal administration
  • Buccal artery
  • Buccal nerve
  • Buccal branch of the facial nerve

Usage examples of "buccal".

We will test all these tissues, Martyas soon as you provide buccal cells from the daughter.

Most stickies simply had a gaping buccal orifice, fringed with ragged porcine hairs, that dribbled wetly.

In the mouth the buccal mucosae are lesioned, the oropharynx inflamed.

He looked up from his current patientan Otolla Gungan observer from Naboo, who had had his buccal cavity severely varicosed by a sonic pistol blast the day before.

A little research showed it that DNA testing for purposes of identification was usually done with buccal swabs, just wiping a few cells off the inside of the cheek, noninvasive and less personal than a blood or sperm sample.

You take the buccal swab and swirl it around in a test tube containing a solution that turns acid in the presence of even a microgram of DNA, then add a drop of Phenol Red.

The matter in which Carido gave a buccal swab is still an active and open investigation.

At the head end, an astonishingly wide mouth opened on large, squarish, lemon yellow teeth and a bright pink buccal cavity where a grayish tongue lolled.

He looked up from his current patientan Otolla Gungan observer from Naboo, who had had his buccal cavity severely varicosed by a sonic pistol blast the day before.

It is pronounced by forcing the breath from the back of the throat with the mouth wide open, through the buccal cavity with the lips so shaped as to modify the sound from A to O (or U), to the closed lips, when it becomes M.

The deep recesses around the mouth and nose, the hollowed cheeks that encroached so deeply over the broad jaw that they seemed to leave no space for the buccal cavity within, filled for a moment as if a single breath of life had passed momentarily through the body.

THE ULTIMAX MAN 209 end, an astonishingly wide mouth opened on large, squarish, lemon yellow teeth and a bright pink buccal cavity where a grayish tongue lolled.

You took the buccal swab and swirled it around in a test tube containing a solution that turns acid in the presence of even a microgram of DNA, then added a drop of phenol red.