dental

4 definitions found

dental - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  dental \den"tal\ (d[e^]n"tal), a. [L. dens, dentis, tooth: cf.
     F. dental. See Tooth.]
     1. Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry; as, dental
        surgery.
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     2. (Phon.) Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certain
        articulations and the letters representing them; as, d and
        t are dental letters.
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     Dental formula (Zool.), a brief notation used by zoologists
        to denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal.
  
     Dental surgeon, a dentist.
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  Dental \Den"tal\, n. [Cf. F. dentale. See Dental, a.]
     1. An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth.
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     2. (Zool.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a
        curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium.
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dental - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  dental
      adj 1: of or relating to the teeth; "dental floss"
      2: of or relating to dentistry; "dental student"
      n 1: a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the
           gum ridge [syn: alveolar consonant, dental consonant,
           alveolar, dental]

dental - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, snaggle-toothed,
     snaggled, 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