About The Word Dental
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Dental
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What's The Definition Of Dental?
[adj] of or relating to the teeth; "dental floss"
[adj] of or relating to dentistry; "dental student" Synonyms | Synonyms for Dental: Related Terms | Find terms related to Dental: accented | allopathic | alveolar | apical | apico-alveolar | apico-dental | articulated | assimilated | back | barytone | bicuspid | bilabial | broad | cacuminal | central | cerebral | checked | chiropodic | chiropractic | clinical | close | consonant | consonantal | continuant | dentiform | dentoid | dissimilated | dorsal | exodontic | fanged | flat | front | glide | glossal | glottal | guttural | hard | heavy | high | homeopathic | hydropathic | iatric | intonated | labial | labiodental | labiovelar | lateral | lax | light | lingual | liquid | low | medical | mid | molar | monophthongal | muted | narrow | nasal | nasalized | naturopathic | neurological | obstetric | occlusive | odontoid | open | orthodontic | orthopedic | osteopathic | oxytone | palatal | palatalized | pediatric | periodontic | pharyngeal | pharyngealized | phonemic | phonetic | phonic | pitch | pitched | posttonic | prosthodontic | retroflex | rounded | semivowel | snaggled | snaggle-toothed | soft | sonant | stopped | stressed | strong | surd | surgical | syllabic | tense | thick | throaty | tonal | tonic | toothed | toothlike | toothy | tusked | twangy | unaccented | unrounded | unstressed | velar | vocalic | vocoid | voiced | voiceless | vowel | vowellike | weak | wide See Also | Dental In Webster's Dictionary \Den"tal\, a. [L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf. F. dental. See
{Tooth}.]
1. Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental
surgery.
2. (Phon.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain
articulations and the letters representing them; as, d t
are dental letters.
{Dental formula} (Zo["o]l.), a brief notation used by
zo["o]logists to denote the number and kind of teeth of a
mammal.
{Dental surgeon}, a dentist.
\Den"tal\, n. [Cf. F. dentale. See {Dental}, a.] 1. An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A marine mollusk of the genus {Dentalium}, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See {Dentalium}. |
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