Medical Term:
dentinal fibers
Definition:
- the processes of the pulpal cells, the odontoblasts, which extend in radial fashion through the dentin toward the dentoenamel junction and are contained within the dentinal tubules;
- the intertubular fine collagenous fibers that with the dentinal ground substance infiltrated with calcium salts constitute the dentinal matrix.
Synonym(s): odontoblastic processes, Tomes fibers
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