Agressive benign tumour of jaw, usually the lower jaw. It is more common in Asian and African people. It results from a proliferation of ameloblast cells, which is the cell that forms enamel.
n. an odontogenic tumour in the jaw. It invades the mandible more commonly than the maxilla and rarely exhibits malignant behaviour. It is considered to develop from ameloblasts although it does not contain enamel.
any one of a group of neoplasm tumour-like malformations arising from odontogenic tissues or their remnants. The most important example is the *ameloblastoma.... odontogenic tumour
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