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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Edged with toothlike projections; toothed.
  • adjective Chemistry Having a binding site. Used of ligands.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Toothed; notched.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Having teeth or toothlike points. See Illust. of Antennæ.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having teeth or toothlike projections; serrated, toothed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having toothlike projections in the margin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin dentātus, from dēns, dent-, tooth; see dent- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin dentatus.

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Examples

  • Under the microscope, it appeared that the transplanted cells had settled mainly in a sub-area of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Under the microscope, it appeared that the transplanted cells had settled mainly in a sub-area of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Under the microscope, it appeared that the transplanted cells had settled mainly in a sub-area of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Under the microscope, it appeared that the transplanted cells had settled mainly in a sub-area of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • The researchers built on earlier studies that found that the production of stem cells in the area of the hippocampus known as the dentate gyrus drops off dramatically by the time mice are middle age and that exercise can slow that trend.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • The hippocampus plays a central role in the creation and storage of new memories, and central to that function is the creation of neurons from "neural precursor cells" - stem cells-within the part of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus.

    PLoS Biology 2008

  • The researchers built on earlier studies that found that the production of stem cells in the area of the hippocampus known as the dentate gyrus drops off dramatically by the time mice are middle age and that exercise can slow that trend.

    Science Blog - Science news straight from the source 2008

  • The researchers built on earlier studies that found that the production of stem cells in the area of the hippocampus known as the dentate gyrus drops off dramatically by the time mice are middle age and that exercise can slow that trend.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2008

  • It rouses the nerve cells in a part of the brainstem called the dentate gyrus into a frenzy.

    MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

  • Exercise, the researchers found, targets a region of the brain within the hippocampus, known as the dentate gyrus, which underlies normal age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most adults.

    Speedlinking 3/15/07 William Harryman 2007

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