#dentistry terminology

• Apico- — A neological first element of composition (combining form) extracted from the Latin lexicon, used in medical, dental, and phonetic terminology to introduce a direct structural reference to an apex, a tip, or the extremity of a tooth root (e.g., apicoectomy, apicification).
• Apico-dental — Pertaining to the tip of the tongue and the upper teeth (in phonetics, describing sounds articulated by resting the tongue tip against the inner surface of the upper incisors); in stomatology and endodontics, the term describes an area, structural relationship, or pathology simultaneously involving the root apex and dental elements.