predental

English

Alternative forms

• pre-dental

Etymology

From pre- +‎ dental.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛntəl

Adjective

predental (not comparable)

1. Before, and in preparation for, dental education.

   Biology and chemistry are good subjects for premedical or predental coursework.

2. In front of the teeth.
3. an erroneous misconstruction arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as pre–dental surgery anxiety as *predental surgery anxiety, originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, optical character recognition errors, and transcoding loss of hard hyphens misinterpreted as soft hyphens.

Noun

predental (plural predentals)

1. A person studying predentistry.

Anagrams

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