predental

English

adj
Definitions
  • Before, and in preparation for, dental education.
  • In front of the teeth.
  • misconstruction arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as pre– anxiety as *predental surgery anxiety, originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, optical character recognition errors, and loss of s misinterpreted as s.

Etymology

Prefix from English dental.

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English

dental

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