predental

English

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Etymology

From pre- +‎ dental

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. 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.

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