The ________ Helps Hold a Tooth in Its Socket

question 154

Multiple Choice

The ________ helps hold a tooth in its socket.

• A) crown
• B) pulp cavity
• C) periodontal ligament
• D) dental arch
• E) alveoli

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Definitions:

Anal-expulsive Personality

A psychoanalytic concept that suggests a personality type characterized by messiness, carelessness, and a lack of self-control, believed to originate from certain experiences in early childhood.

Anal-retentive

A term derived from Freudian psychoanalysis referring to an individual who is perceived as excessively neat, precise, and stubborn, often as a result of stringent potty training in the anal stage of development.

Oedipal

Pertaining to the Oedipus complex, a Freudian theory involving a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards the same-sex parent.

Electra

A psychoanalytic theory that suggests a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.