People should see a doctor if. 1  A bee sting triggers hives (to obtain advice about treatment if another bee sting occurs). 2  They have other symptoms, such as fever, joint pains, weight loss, swollen lymph nodes, or night sweats. 3  Hives recur without exposure to a trigger. 4  Symptoms last for more than 2 days.
tooth. 1. (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usu. attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
[toÌ³th] (pl. teeth) one of the small bonelike structures of the jaws for biting and mastication of food; they also help in the shaping of sounds and forming of words in speech. Structure. The portion of a tooth that rises above the gum is the crown; the portion below is the root. The crown is covered by enamel, which is related to the epithelial tissue of the skin and is the hardest substance in the human body. The surface of the root is composed of a bonelike tissue called cementum.